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The seat of knowledge is in the head of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.
William Hazlitt on knowledge

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.
Arthur Rimbaud on knowledge

The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.
John Locke on knowledge

The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
John Locke on knowledge

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.
Maurice Maeterlinck on knowledge

Knowledge is recognition of something absent it is a salutation, not an embrace.
George Santayana on knowledge

The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
Joseph Addison on knowledge

We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.
Charles Caleb Colton on knowledge

Zeal will do more than knowledge.
William Hazlitt on knowledge

The animals that depend on instinct have an inherent knowledge of the laws of economics and of how to apply them Man, with his powers of reason, has reduced economics to the level of a farce which is at once funnier and more tragic than Tobacco Road.
James Thurber on knowledge

We can't have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing then afterwards we may be led on to master the evidence for ourselves.
Thomas Aquinas on knowledge

Wonder is the desire for knowledge.
Thomas Aquinas on knowledge

When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge.
Arthur Conan Doyle on knowledge

His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.
Arthur Conan Doyle on knowledge

How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in the truth.
Sophocles on knowledge

Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.
John Locke on knowledge

It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
Oliver Wendell Holmes on knowledge

The knowledge of God is the cause of things. For the knowledge of God is to all creatures what the knowledge of the artificer is to things made by his art.
Thomas Aquinas on knowledge

My mom took me to see Carnal Knowledge and The Wild Bunch and all these kind of movies when I was a kid.
Quentin Tarantino on knowledge

Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
William S. Burroughs on knowledge