The difference between a successful person and
others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of
knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.
- Vince Lombardi
All men by nature desire knowledge.
- Aristotle
If a man empties his purse into his head, no man
can take it away from him. An investment in
knowledge always pays the best interest.
- Benjamin Franklin
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- Unknown
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
- Thomas Henry Huxley
British biologist
Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce
of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
- John Wesley
Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom
lies in their simplification.
- Martin Fischer
American philosopher, poet, and essay
It is a great nuisance that knowledge can be
acquired only by hard work.
- Somerset Maugham
The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at
the most, but little compared with that of which
we are ignorant.
- Plato
Knowledge is learning something every day. Wisdom
is letting go of something every day.
- Unknown
The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the
only guardian of true liberty.
- James Madison
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
- Jimi Hendrix
We know nothing at all. All our knowledge is but
the knowledge of schoolchildren. The real nature
of things we shall never know
- Albert Einstein
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my
imagination. Imagination is more important than
knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination
encircles the world.
- Albert Einstein
Desire is a treasure map. Knowledge is the
treasure chest. Wisdom is the jewel. Yet without
action they all stay buried. Hope is the pillar
that holds up the world
- Pliny the Elder (23-79 A.D.)
When you reach the end of what you should know,
you will be at the beginning of what you should
sense.
- Kahlil Gibran
I believe that imagination is stronger than
knowledge, that myth is more potent that history.
I believe that dreams are more powerful than
facts, that hope always triumphs over experience,
that laughter is the only cure for grief. And I
believe that love is stronger than death.
- From the movie The Crow
We know of our own knowledge that we are human
beings, and, as such, imperfect. But we are bathed
by the communications industry in a ceaseless tide
of inhuman, impossible perfection.
- Margaret Halsey
Be curious always, for knowledge will not acquire
you; you must acquire it
- Sudie Back
The biggest difficulty with mankind today is that
our knowledge has increased so much faster than
our wisdom
- Frank Whitmore
The degree of one's emotion varies inversely with
one's knowledge of the facts -- the less you know
the hotter you get.
- Bertrand Russell
If you have knowledge, let others light their
candles with it.
- Sir Winston Churchill
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in
information.
- T. S. Eliot