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Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations.
Lucy Stone on knowledge

Most people who are selling their mineral rights, this is a once-in-a-lifetime transaction. The people who are buying, the landmen who are coming in, do it every day. So there's a little inequity there about knowledge.
Mike DeWine on knowledge

Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values.
Sidney Hook on knowledge

There is no stopping the world's tendency to throw off imposed restraints, the religious authority that is based on the ignorance of the many, the political authority that is based on the knowledge of the few.
Van Wyck Brooks on knowledge

It's extremely hard for athletes to accept what's happened to them sometimes. It's hard to be beaten by a small margin, and I've spoken with athletes who, for years afterward, have been tormented by the knowledge that, had they done something ever so slightly different, they could have been one-ten-thousandth of a second quicker.
Chris Cleave on knowledge

In the present state of our knowledge, it would be useless to attempt to speculate on the remote cause of the electrical energy... its relation to chemical affinity is, however, sufficiently evident. May it not be identical with it, and an essential property of matter?
Humphry Davy on knowledge

If we want our children to value education, then we must show our appreciation for knowledge.
Brad Sherman on knowledge

For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics.
Roger Bacon on knowledge

You can only maintain your interest if you're travelling more in ignorance than knowledge.
Chris Morris on knowledge

A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can.
Edith Hamilton on knowledge

Personal law is simply the thought that controls your mind and your life more than any other thought. Finding that thought is the most valuable knowledge that you can have about yourself. It is like the leverage on personal change. It enables you to change very efficiently.
Leonard Orr on knowledge

Is it right to probe so deeply into Nature's secrets? The question must here be raised whether it will benefit mankind, or whether the knowledge will be harmful.
Pierre Curie on knowledge

Everyone, young and old, must have access to the knowledge and skills to participate in the evolving economy.
James H. Douglas on knowledge

Knowledge is the consequence of time, and multitude of days are fittest to teach wisdom.
Jeremy Collier on knowledge

Capucci was the biggest schooling I had. It wasn't just about the technical knowledge, such as color and volume, but also about the secret rules, and the beautiful codes of respect between the atelier and the master.
Giambattista Valli on knowledge

I think it's wrong that so many people pass on from this existence, and take all their knowledge with them.
Rex Hunt on knowledge

For the longest time I was brought up listening to only two genres of music, pop and rock. So in the past few years I've been trying to expand my interests because I think that you can only write to the extent of your knowledge, and if your knowledge is limited you can't write past that.
Jacqueline Emerson on knowledge

According to the Jain view, soul is that element which knows, thinks and feels. It is in fact the divine element in the living being. The Jain thinks that the phenomena of knowledge, feeling, thinking and willing are conditioned on something, and that that something must be as real as anything can be.
Virchand Gandhi on knowledge

Obama has already rejected the bright sunlight of public knowledge, which is democracy's great disinfectant and cure.
David K. Shipler on knowledge

Be ignorance thy choice, where knowledge leads to woe.
James Beattie on knowledge