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The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.
Henry Ward Beecher on knowledge

A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.
Peter Drucker on knowledge

Knowledge about life is one thing effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.
William James on knowledge

It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body.
Marcel Proust on knowledge

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
Alfred Lord Tennyson on knowledge

Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.
Aldous Huxley on knowledge

Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.
T. S. Eliot on knowledge

Checking the results of a decision against its expectations shows executives what their strengths are, where they need to improve, and where they lack knowledge or information.
Peter Drucker on knowledge

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
Samuel Johnson on knowledge

Anyone who thinks that the vice-president can take a position independent of the president of his administration simply has no knowledge of politics or government. You are his choice in a political marriage, and he expects your absolute loyalty.
Hubert H. Humphrey on knowledge

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.
Carl Jung on knowledge

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
Samuel Johnson on knowledge

Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.
Ambrose Bierce on knowledge

The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca on knowledge

It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca on knowledge

Universities exist to transmit knowledge and understanding of ideas and values to students not to provide entertainment for spectators or employment for athletes.
Milton Friedman on knowledge

A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery on knowledge

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
Carl Jung on knowledge

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
Immanuel Kant on knowledge

The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts.
Bertrand Russell on knowledge