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  • All great poets have been men of great knowledge. -- William C. Bryant
  • What's the point of having great knowledge and keeping them all to yourself? -- Donald Trump
  • For in truth great love is born of great knowledge of the thing loved. -- Leonardo da Vinci
  • True and great love springs out of great knowledge, and where you know little you can love but little or not at all. -- Leonardo da Vinci
  • A small amount of power corrupts a small man absolutely. A little knowledge is dangerous to a little man. To a great man only great knowledge is dangerous. -- Leonard J. V. Compagno
  • I think I have great knowledge of foreign policy, frankly. And despite what some people said, I was always against the war in Iraq, and a lot of people weren't. -- Donald Trump
  • For, verily, great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you little know it, you will be able to love it only little or not at all. -- Leonardo da Vinci
  • I think the humanities always have to take science, our great knowledge that we get from science, into account, but then try to answer the human questions and try to make sense out of our lives, taking into account all of the scientific knowledge. -- Rebecca Goldstein
  • One has no right to love or hate anything if one has not acquired a thorough knowledge of its nature. Great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you know it but little you will be able to love it only a little or not at all. -- Leonardo da Vinci
  • Great teachers emanate out of knowledge, passion and compassion. -- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • The great end of life is not knowledge but action. -- Thomas Huxley
  • The great aim of education is not knowledge but action. -- Herbert Spencer
  • Poetic knowledge is born in the great silence of scientific knowledge. -- Aime Cesaire
  • Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge. -- Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority. -- Thomas Huxley
  • To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge. -- Benjamin Disraeli
  • Obama has already rejected the bright sunlight of public knowledge, which is democracy's great disinfectant and cure. -- David K. Shipler
  • It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
  • Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain. -- Khalil Gibran
  • Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles. -- Samuel Johnson
  • If four things are followed - having a great aim, acquiring knowledge, hard work, and perseverance - then anything can be achieved. -- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • There was never a nation great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help. -- Charles Dudley Warner
  • It is only requisite, for me to say to you, that the President places great reliance upon your skill, judgment and intimate knowledge. -- Anson Jones
  • 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
  • One of the great problems of philosophy is the relationship between the realm of knowledge and the realm of values. Knowledge is what is; values are what ought to be. -- Jacques Monod
  • I believe that the appearance of God the Father and His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, in 1820 to Joseph Smith unlocked the heavens not only to the great spiritual knowledge revealed in this dispensation but also to secular knowledge. -- James E. Faust
  • Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom. -- Charles Spurgeon
  • I would rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent than in the extent of my powers and dominion. -- Alexander the Great
  • I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion. -- Alexander the Great
  • Great knowledge brings great sorrow. -- Sergei Lukyanenko
  • When wisdom and knowledge appear, great pretense arises. -- Laozi
  • The knowledge of the Holy Scripture is a great wisdom. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
  • The great end of life is not knowledge but action. -- Thomas Huxley
  • Humor and knowledge are the two great hopes of our culture. -- Konrad Lorenz
  • In the truly great, virtue governs with the sceptre of knowledge. -- Philip Sidney
  • Turn to your community and the great earth for sustenance and knowledge. -- Bryant McGill
  • A people's literature is the great text-book for real knowledge of them. -- Edith Hamilton
  • Turn to your community and the great earth for sustenance and knowledge. -- Bryant McGill
  • I am an investigator by inclination. I feel a great thirst for knowledge. -- Immanuel Kant
  • Great knowledge sees all in one. Small knowledge breaks down into the many. -- Zhuangzi
  • Self-knowledge is the great power by which we comprehend and control our lives -- Vernon Howard
  • If book knowledge made great investors, than the librarians would all be rich. -- Warren Buffett
  • Learning gives creativity Creativity leads to thinking Thinking provides knowledge Knowledge makes you great. -- Abdul Kalam
  • Knowledge no longer exists if one has ignored the attributes of the Almighty Great Creator. -- Ibn Hazm
  • Interpretation is the evidence of growth and knowledge, the latter through sorrow ? that great teacher. -- Eleanora Duse
  • All schools, all colleges have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal valuable knowledge. -- Mark Twain
  • Great healers, people of divine realization, do not cure by chance but by exact knowledge. -- Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Knowledge of the past and an optimistic view of the present give you great opportunities. -- Buzz Aldrin
  • The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge. -- Aldous Huxley
  • A little knowledge OF God is worth more than a great deal of knowledge ABOUT him. -- J. I. Packer
  • Great knowledge is universal. Small knowledge is limited. Great words are inspiring; small words are chatter. -- Zhuangzi
  • A strong confident person can rule the room with knowledge, personal style, attitude and great posture. -- Cindy Ann Peterson
  • A name made great is a name destroyed. He who does not increase his knowledge decreases it. -- Hillel the Elder
  • Knowledge and increase of enduring joy From the great Nature that exists in works Of mighty Poets. -- William Wordsworth
  • Internet has been really amazing, and I think it's a place of great passion, creativity, and knowledge. -- Lauren Mayberry
  • We can say of Shakespeare, that never has a man turned so little knowledge to such great account. -- T. S. Eliot
  • The truly great rest in the knowledge of their own deserts, nor seek the conformation of the world. -- Alexander Smith
  • If virtue & knowledge are diffused among the people, they will never be enslav'd. This will be their great security. -- Samuel Adams
  • The man who does not read miss a great literature of knowledge. You must dare to read and reread. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
  • Great is the faith of the flush of knowledge and of the investigation of the depths of qualities and things. -- Walt Whitman
  • The history of knowledge is a great fugue in which the voices of the nations one after the other emerge. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • The Great Society is a place where every child can find knowledge to enrich his mind and enlarge his talents. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
  • It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
  • If increased meta-knowledge is not counter-balanced by a corresponding growth in consciousness then the likelihood of psycho-spiritual dysfunction is great. -- Eckhart Tolle
  • Anyone with great imagination, of course, is intuitive. Knowledge of any nature, unless put into practical use, becomes of little effect. -- Edgar Cayce
  • ...it is time [for Islam] to assume, along with all of the great cultural traditions, the modern risks of scientific knowledge. -- Mohammed Arkoun
  • The history of Western science confirms the aphorism that the great menace to progress is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge. -- Daniel J. Boorstin
  • 3 requirements for a good designer: 1. genuine knowledge and love of great design. 2. sound knowledge of principles and techniques of communication. 3. heart (passion). -- Lester Beall
  • Without knowledge and understanding, one tends to become a passive spectator rather than an active participant in the great decisions of our time. -- Diane Ravitch
  • Knowledge paves the way to Love, and Love in its turn fosters understanding, and leads one along the path of great common achievements. -- Haile Selassie
  • We live in an age of knowledge, with the great god Google, that we can refer to at any time on any subject. -- Roger Housden
  • it is through the ghost [writer] that the great gift of knowledge which the inarticulate have for the world can be made available. -- Elizabeth Janeway
  • It's the bringing together of knowledge and wisdom that is a great part - perhaps the greatest part - of our life's journey. -- Roger Housden
  • To survive one tragedy was to learn you cannot survive them all, and this knowledge was both a freedom and a great loss. -- Chris Womersley
  • Quite apart from any conscious program, the great cultural historians have always been historical morphologists: seekers after theforms of life, thought, custom, knowledge, art. -- Johan Huizinga
  • No individual has sufficient experience, education, native ability and knowledge to ensure the accumulation of a great fortune, without the cooperation of other people. -- Napoleon Hill
  • I think all the knowledge and all the travels that I've done, I'm going to do a lot of great work in the future. -- Chris Tucker
  • There was never a nation that became great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help. -- Charles Dudley Warner
  • The genuine investor in common stocks does not need a great equipment of brain and knowledge, but he does need some unusual qualities of character -- Benjamin Graham
  • That Book, the Bible, accounts for the supremacy of England. England has become great & happy by the knowledge of the true God through Jesus Christ. -- Queen Victoria
  • Great knowledge is requisite to instruct those who have been well instructed, but still greater knowledge is requisite to instruct those who have been neglected. -- Horace Mann
  • Synchronicity is choreographed by a great, pervasive intelligence that lies at the heart of nature, and is manifest in each of us through intuitive knowledge. -- Deepak Chopra
  • In determing "the right people," the good-to-great companies placed greater weight on character attributes than on specific educational background, practical skills, specialized knowledge, or work experience. -- James C. Collins
  • But I already saw no great difference between the psyche and spirituality. To amass knowledge without becoming wise is not my idea of progress in therapy. -- M. Scott Peck
  • It is possible to learn all about the mysteries of the Bible and never be affected by it in one's soul. Great knowledge is not enough. -- John Bunyan
  • Was it not the great philosopher and mathematician Leibnitz who said that the more knowledge advances the more it becomes possible to condense it into little books? -- J. Arthur Thomson
  • The compensation for a death sentence is the knowledge of the exact hour when one is to die. A great luxury, but one that is well earned. -- Vladimir Nabokov
  • "Great suffering has a silver-lining that we can be grateful for, because it builds up a human being and puts him or her within reach of self-knowledge." -- Anwar Sadat
  • Another thing he told his customers was that one of the great accounting unknowns of the modern age was how to value knowledge. It was an exciting field. -- Jane Smiley
  • Great are those two gifts, wisdom and continence: wisdom, forsooth, whereby we are formed in the knowledge of God; continence whereby we are not conformed to this world. -- Saint Augustine
  • You are an uncut gemstone of priceless value. Cut and polish your potential with knowledge, skills and service and you will be in great demand throughout your life. -- Denis Waitley
  • Alexander the Great valued learning so highly, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge than to his father Philip for life. -- Samuel Smiles
  • Why do you read many books? The great book is within your heart. Open the pages of this inexhaustible book, the source of all knowledge. You will know everything. -- Sivananda
  • It just makes you a better artist when you're with people who are great artists themselves. Being around Kanye, soaking up all the knowledge, all the stuff he got. -- Big Sean
  • A great many things which in times of lesser knowledge we imagined to be superstitious or useless, prove today on examination to have been of immense value to mankind. -- Lafcadio Hearn
  • Indians are great lovers of cricket, they have always been that as far as I can remember - great followers of the game and have knowledge about the game. -- Garfield Sobers
  • Though I may accumulate a great deal of riches in this world, it is only my wealth of knowledge, talents, and emotional bonds that I keep when I leave. -- Richelle E. Goodrich
  • All knowledge attains its ethical value and its human significance only by the human sense with which it is employed. Only a good man can be a great physician. -- Hermann Nothnagel
  • The community as a whole doesn't listen patiently to critics who adopt alternative viewpoints. Although the great lesson of history is that knowledge develops through the conflict of viewpoints. -- Walter Gilbert
  • Mathematical discoveries, small or great are never born of spontaneous generation They always presuppose a soil seeded with preliminary knowledge and well prepared by labour, both conscious and subconscious. -- Henri Poincare
  • Great advantage is drawn from knowledge of your adversary, and when you know the measure of his intelligence and character, you can use it to play on his weakness. -- Frederick the Great
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