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Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.
Ludwig Wittgenstein on knowledge

I have thought about it a great deal, and the more I think, the more certain I am that obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the child.
Anne Sullivan on knowledge

All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This is the easiest of sciences, a fact which is obvious in that no one's brain rejects it for laymen and people who are utterly illiterate know how to count and reckon.
Roger Bacon on knowledge

There are in fact two things, science and opinion the former begets knowledge, the later ignorance.
Hippocrates on knowledge

The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less.
Arthur Miller on knowledge

The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading.
David Bailey on knowledge

The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.
Sam Houston on knowledge

The truth is often terrifying, which I think is one of the motifs of Larry and Andrew's cinema. The cost of knowledge is an important theme. In the second and third films, they explore the consequences of Neo's choice to know the truth. It's a beautiful, beautiful story.
Keanu Reeves on knowledge

Knowledge is a beautiful thing, but there are a few things I wish I didn't know.
Susan Orlean on knowledge

The first responsibility of the Muslim is as teacher. That is his job, to teach. His first school, his first classroom is within the household. His first student is himself. He masters himself and then he begins to convey the knowledge that he has acquired to the family. The people who are closest to him.
H. Rap Brown on knowledge

There is a general knowledge that I am multi-dimensional, that when you are creative you do a lot of things.
Suzanne Somers on knowledge

We are approaching a new age of synthesis. Knowledge cannot be merely a degree or a skill... it demands a broader vision, capabilities in critical thinking and logical deduction without which we cannot have constructive progress.
Li Ka Shing on knowledge

Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms: and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge on knowledge

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.
Laurence Sterne on knowledge

If knowledge and foresight are too penetrating and deep, unify them with ease and sincerity.
Xun Zi on knowledge

The family teaches us about the importance of knowledge, education, hard work and effort. It teaches us about enjoying ourselves, having fun, keeping fit and healthy.
Kamisese Mara on knowledge

Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ.
John Calvin on knowledge

It is remarkable how many misconceptions there are here about life in the developing world and I think that that knowledge gap has done a lot to contribute to the imbalance quite frankly.
Emma Thompson on knowledge

G is Grace, the Flaming Star is the Torch of Reason. Those who possess this knowledge are indeed Illuminati.
Adam Weishaupt on knowledge

Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about science, because our knowledge of it is limited and unofficial, and usually our fiction is dreadful.
Philip K. Dick on knowledge