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KNOWLEDGE is only Power to the Extent that it is... U S E D -- Tony Robbins
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance. -- Confucius
Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it. -- Samuel Smiles
I think most defense attorneys know, to some extent, their clients are guilty. -- Matthew McConaughey
It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance. -- Thomas Sowell
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age. -- Anais Nin
Unless you and your mate are united in purpose, dedication, and loyalty, you will not succeed to the extent you otherwise could. -- Ezra Taft Benson
I guess I kind of lived in a fairytale world... looking at everything through rose-colored glasses. I probably always will, to a certain extent. -- Sharon Tate
Standards of beauty are arbitrary. Body shame exists only to the extent that our physiques don't match our own beliefs about how we should look. -- Martha Beck
To some extent, Seattle remains a frontier metropolis, a place where people can experiment with their lives, and change and grow and make things happen. -- Tom Robbins
It is the experiences, the great triumphant joy of living to the fullest extent in which real meaning is found. God it's great to be alive! -- Christopher McCandless
What we have to stop and think about is that we have weakened ourselves militarily to such an extent that it affects all of our military policies. -- Ben Carson
We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. -- H. L. Mencken
To think Being itself explicitly requires disregarding Being to the extent that it is only grounded and interpreted in terms of beings and for beings as their ground, as in all metaphysics. -- Martin Heidegger
Being incarcerated is truly very serious, and it has changed my life to such an extent that breaking the cycle has become my sole focus. Jail is definitely not cool. Education is. -- Ja Rule
It doesn't matter how much you want. What really matters is how much you want it. The extent and complexity of the problem does not matter was much as does the willingness to solve it. -- Ralph Marston
To some extent, we've always had an admiration for extroversion in our culture. But the extrovert ideal really came to play at the turn of the 20th century when we had the rise of big business. -- Susan Cain
To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind. -- Wallace Stevens
I was raised in Arizona, and I went to public school, and the extent of my knowledge of the civil-rights movement was the story of Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Jr. I wonder how much my generation knows. -- Emma Stone
The history of humanity has, to a large extent, been one of groping blindly in the dark, fearing for the future and yet resisting the guiding hand of inspired men who would willingly lead mankind in the path of safety. -- Ezra Taft Benson
You learn to rely on a few basic movements and use your voice to the greatest extent possible to convey your emotions. So there was a technical challenge there and a responsibility to create a character from behind the mask. -- Helena Bonham Carter
We should note that this latter type of shift was successfully amplified to a considerable extent by Russian physicists using the intense light of a ruby laser whose wavelength is close to that of a transition of the potassium atom. -- Alfred Kastler
Technology is permeating every single thing we do... And to the extent that we can better expose our young people to all the different ways that technology can be used, not just for video games or toys, we're planning for the future. -- Marc Morial
The mind of man has perplexed itself with many hard questions. Is space infinite, and in what sense? Is the material world infinite in extent, and are all places within that extent equally full of matter? Do atoms exist or is matter infinitely divisible? -- James Clerk Maxwell
Regarding social media, I really don't understand what appears to be the general population's lack of concern over privacy issues in publicizing their entire lives on the Internet for others to see to such an extent... but hey it's them, not me, so whatever. -- Axl Rose
The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land, to add something to the extent and the solidity of our possessions. -- Thomas Huxley
In this life, we have to make many choices. Some are very important choices. Some are not. Many of our choices are between good and evil. The choices we make, however, determine to a large extent our happiness or our unhappiness, because we have to live with the consequences of our choices. -- James E. Faust
I like America to some extent. -- Michael Moore
All politicians are to some extent salesmen. -- George Will
Knowledge is to certain extent a second existence. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
Every writer, to some extent, writes about himself. -- Dario Argento
I am a stepmother to the fullest extent. -- Megan Fox
To some extent I liken slavery to death. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
We pardon to the extent that we love. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
To a large extent, the political walls are crumbling. -- Robert Greene
I measured love by the extent of my jealousy. -- Graham Greene
We are to a large extent an imitative society. -- Edward R. Murrow
Questions structure and, so, to some extent predetermine answers. -- A. R. Ammons
Within the extent of your knowledge, you are right. -- Ayn Rand
To the extent America abandons Israel, it abandons itself. -- Yaron Brook
If women only knew the extent of their power! -- Alphonse Karr
Every legitimate authority should respect its extent and its limits. -- Joseph Joubert
All painters are interested in photography to a certain extent. -- David Hockney
The virtue which we appreciate, we to some extent appropriate. -- Henry David Thoreau
You know, to an extent, Method acting feels occasionally lazy. -- Richard C. Armitage
I'm very loyal. Sociable to a certain extent. Neurotic, too. -- Robin Lord Taylor
All plays are social comment to one extent or another. -- Edward Albee
To some extent, being an entrepreneur is a lonely journey. -- Chad Hurley
I still believe that music is healing to some extent, -- Jake Shimabukuro
I think everything is fair game to a certain extent. -- Gary Gulman
I still believe that music is healing to some extent. -- Jake Shimabukuro
We know others to the extent that we know ourselves. -- Robert Fripp
To a certain extent, I think I've become an animal-rights person. -- Jason James Richter
Perhaps I know to what extent I can go too far. -- Jean Cocteau
Human society is inconceivable unless words are to some extent bonds. -- Christopher Hitchens
The depth of your mythology is the extent of your effectiveness. -- John C. Maxwell
Laws always lose in energy what the government gains in extent. -- Immanuel Kant
We rarely recognize the extent to which human happiness requires struggle. -- Phil Harvey
When virtue is at liberty, so to some extent is vice. -- Barbara Amiel
All I really know is the extent of my own ignorance -- Plato
I'm not keen on history being tampered with... to any extent. -- Daniel Day-Lewis
The meaning of the words is necessary and not their extent. -- Sorin Cerin
We are beings only in the extent of Our Life's Illusion. -- Sorin Cerin
To some extent, each sentence has to be the whole story. -- Lyn Hejinian
Your wealth can only grow to the extent that you do! -- T. Harv Eker
Your income can grow only to the extent that you do. -- T. Harv Eker
I try to prepare for everything beyond the extent of preparation. -- Taylor Swift
All governments are, to a certain extent, a treaty with the Devil. -- Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi
Great men are more distinguished by range and extent than by originality. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Leadership is influence. To the extent we influence others, we lead them. -- Charles R. Swindoll
Value judgments have value only to the extent that they provoke opposition. -- Marty Rubin
Opinions about obviousness are to a certain extent a function of time. -- Albert Einstein
Art is always to a large extent about need, despair and hopelessness. -- Gerhard Richter
Film, television and to a certain extent, theater are modern day libraries. -- David Strathairn
To some extent, the cult surrounding black-and-white photography is based on nostalgia. -- Rene Burri
I don't want to sound egotistical, but I'm egotistical to an extent. -- CM Punk
The extent to which human aggression exemplifies innate tendencies is not clear. -- B. F. Skinner
Excrement can never be culturally elaborated to the extent that nutriment can. -- Mason Cooley
We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane. -- Kurt Vonnegut
Prayer is seeing His greatness to the extent we can receive it. -- Richard J. Foster
I am I-I am powerful, but to what extent? I am I. -- Sylvia Plath
There is no philosophy that is not to some extent also theology. -- Karl Barth
The U.S. is, to a very unusual extent, a business-run society. -- Noam Chomsky
Woman learns to hate to the extent to which her charms decrease. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
You can only be loved to the extent that you are known. -- Pete Wilson
A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational. -- Thomas Aquinas
Perl should remain fast and intuitive (to the extent that it is -- Larry Wall
The division of labour was limited by the extent of the market -- Adam Smith
To one extent, if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all. -- Spiro T. Agnew
Every public company depends to some extent on the trust of its investors. -- Alex Berenson
It's surprising that the world is understandable to the extent that it is. -- Edward Boyden
A phenomenon must be to some extent comprehensible to be perceived at all. -- William S. Burroughs
To some extent I've always taken the architecture of the space into account. -- Wade Guyton
The fiction is not autobiographical. Maybe to some extent it is, of course. -- Paul Auster
I got my heroes secondhand, from television and movies, to a certain extent. -- Brad Bird
Choosing is existence. To the extent that you don't choose, you don't exist, -- John Barth
Nations that embrace the free market to the greatest extent prosper the most. -- James Cook
Believing in the project to a certain extent always makes things more affordable. -- Steve Pink
To the extent that one is responsible for one's life, one is alone. -- Irvin D. Yalom
External conditions can, to a certain extent, reduce, but never cancel individual repsonsibility. -- Albert Einstein
It's simple arithmetic: "Your income can grow only to the extent you do." -- T. Harv Eker
The Bishop moves diagonally forwards or backwards, to the extent of the Board. -- Howard Staunton
The extent of the atonement is defined by the intent of the atonement. -- Steve Lawson
The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing. -- Joseph Addison
Society can serve its citizens only to the extent that it knows them. -- David Marusek
We can be redeemed only to the extent to which we see ourselves. -- Martin Buber
Power consists to a large extent in deciding what stories will be told. -- Carolyn Heilbrun
I always think boredom is to some extent the fault of the bored. -- Kate Ross
I think by planning an exercise regime, your diet follows to some extent. -- Dolph Lundgren
Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves... -- Cheryl Strayed
To the extent we behave with humility, to that extent good will result. -- Ramana Maharshi
To some extent, the mainstream's absence means the Tea Party is the Republican Party. -- David Remnick
Joy in your Job is possible to the extent you're willing to choose it. -- Todd Stocker
Charities are really good. To a certain extent, the ones you pick are arbitrary. -- Penn Jillette
No Chess Grandmaster is normal; they only differ in the extent of their madness -- Viktor Korchnoi
Japa, Bhajana and Kirtana are superficial to the extent that we are not humble. -- Radhanath Swami
At times it is strangely sedative to know the extent of your own powerlessness. -- Erica Jong
Your behavior determines, to some extent, the destiny of your nation and your group. -- John Henrik Clarke
I've been spared to a large extent the business end of the race stick. -- Wentworth Miller
Men's giving can only be to a certain extent: but God's is without limit. -- J. Sidlow Baxter

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