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- I read many things. I read to fill in my knowledge of the world. -- V. S. Naipaul
- His knowledge of books had in some degree diminished his knowledge of the world. -- William Shenstone
- The auditory perception is not sufficient for our knowledge of the world; it does not have vastness. -- Robert Delaunay
- Anyone who acquires more than the usual amount of knowledge concerning a subject is bound to leave it as his contribution to the knowledge of the world. -- Liberty Hyde Bailey
- Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them. -- Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
- How surely a knowledge of the world hardens the heart! -- Pedro Calderon de la Barca
- The Vagabond life is the logical life to lead if one seeks the intimate knowledge of the world we were seeking. -- Richard Halliburton
- That observation which is called knowledge of the world will be found much more frequently to make men cunning than good. -- Samuel Johnson
- There is but one bond of peace that is both permanent and enriching: The increasing knowledge of the world in which experiment occurs. -- Walter Lippmann
- I had no immediate knowledge of the world of Batman at all. I'm quite incubated. I just keep myself to myself and my dog. -- Tom Hardy
- Proselytism is solemn nonsense; it makes no sense. We need to get to know each other, listen to each other and improve our knowledge of the world around us. -- Pope Francis
- Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity. -- Abraham Cowley
- The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge of the world he is attracted to, yet he is forced by attraction to concern himself with the world that repels him. -- Italo Calvino
- Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them. -- Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
- Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them. -- Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
- The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination. -- Elizabeth Hardwick
- Generally, social networking sites can be hugely promising and beneficial in opening new friendships and vistas and knowledge of the world, but they are also fraught with peril, when young people are reckless or headless. -- Richard Blumenthal
- Adventurous men enjoy shipwrecks, mutinies, earthquakes, conflagrations, and all kinds of unpleasant experiences. They say to themselves, for example, 'So this is what an earthquake is like,' and it gives them pleasure to have their knowledge of the world increased by this new item. -- Bertrand Russell
- To unfold the secret laws and relations of those high faculties of thought by which all beyond the merely perceptive knowledge of the world and of ourselves is attained or matured, is a object which does not stand in need of commendation to a rational mind. -- George Boole
- It is not possible to be a scientist unless you believe that it is good to learn... that it is of the highest value to share your knowledge... with anyone who is interested... that the knowledge of the world, and the power which this gives, is a thing which is of intrinsic value to humanity -- J. Robert Oppenheimer
- Science enhances the moral value of life, because it furthers a love of truth and reverence-love of truth displaying itself in the constant endeavor to arrive at a more exact knowledge of the world of mind and matter around us, and reverence, because every advance in knowledge brings us face to face with the mystery of our own being. -- Max Planck
- The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it. -- John Locke
- For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics. -- Roger Bacon
- The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn when teachers themselves are taught to learn. -- Bertolt Brecht
- Readership was high, and very attentive. It was people's only source of knowledge about the world. -- Ryszard Kapuscinski
- Deficits. Most people of knowledge say it's the biggest single problem facing the economic free world. -- David Hartman
- Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet. -- Philip Stanhope
- In a world of commoditized knowledge, the returns go to the companies who can produce non-standard knowledge. -- Gary Hamel
- Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a formula. -- Roland Barthes
- The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge. -- Tahar Ben Jelloun
- To attain any assured knowledge about the soul is one of the most difficult things in the world. -- Aristotle
- Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend. -- Ludwig van Beethoven
- The future of the world, dependent as it is upon atomic energy, requires more understanding and knowledge about the atom. -- Willard Libby
- I'm a very passionate believer in the unity of knowledge. There is one world of reality - one world of our experience that we're seeking to describe. -- John Polkinghorne
- In other words, knowledge of the external world begins with an immediate utilisation of things, whereas knowledge of self is stopped by this purely practical and utilitarian contact. -- Jean Piaget
- How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is no such thing as observation of the inner world, as there is of the outer world. -- Franz Kafka
- The world grows more enlightened. Knowledge is more equally diffused. -- John Adams
- The world of fantasy fills the gaps in people's knowledge. -- Fred Vargas
- Knowledge has become the key resource of the world economy. -- Peter Drucker
- The bulk of the world's knowledge is an imaginary construction. -- Helen Keller
- Knowledge of the world means dissolving the solidity of the world. -- Italo Calvino
- Manners must adorn knowledge and smooth its way through the world. -- Lord Chesterfield
- The gift of knowledge is the highest gift in the world. -- Swami Vivekananda
- Knowledge was inherent in all things. The world was a library. -- Luther Standing Bear
- The only defense against the world is a thorough knowledge of it. -- John Locke
- Live in the knowledge that you are a gift to the world. -- Debbie Ford
- We live in a world of unused and misapplied knowledge and skill. -- H. G. Wells
- The entirety of the world's knowledge is in your pants right now. -- Jay Baer
- Everything is the same, nothing is worthwhile, the world is senseless, knowledge strangles. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Historical knowledge is indispensable for those who want to build a better world -- Ludwig von Mises
- The Music is the only corporeal introduction to the superior world of Knowledge. -- Ludwig van Beethoven
- Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. -- Albert Einstein
- It is to the eccentrics that the world owes most of its knowledge. -- Rose Macaulay
- The senses, being the explorers of the world, open the way to knowledge. -- Maria Montessori
- If we lose wilderness, we lose forever the knowledge of what the world was. -- Harvey Broome
- Ultimately you want to have the entire world's knowledge connected directly to your mind. -- Sergey Brin
- If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions. -- Susanne Katherina Langer
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- It is India's responsibility to display its strength to the World through knowledge and innovations. -- Narendra Modi
- The world is darkness; knowledge is light; but knowledge without truth is a mere shadow. -- Ali ibn Abi Talib
- Technology is knowledge of how the universe works that enables you to change the world. -- Howard Rheingold
- World will prosper in knowledge and intellect, if both men and women are deemed equal. -- Subramanya Bharathi
- The World to Bacon does not only owe it's present knowledge, but its future too. -- John Dryden
- Knowledge is Bought only with a weary care, And wisdom means a world of pain. -- Joaquin Miller
- If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions. -- Susanne Katherina Langer
- I had no knowledge of divine help, and all the world lost faith in gradual progress. -- Joy Davidman
- The academic world was marching toward ever more specialized knowledge, expressed in ever more dense jargon. -- Michael Crichton
- Art is the queen of all sciences communicating knowledge to all the generations of the world. -- Leonardo da Vinci
- Science, in the broadest sense, includes all reasonable claims to knowledge about ourselves and the world. -- Sam Harris
- I felt knowledge and the unity of the world circulate in me like my own blood. -- Hermann Hesse
- Hereafter, in a better world than this, I shall desire more love and knowledge of you -- William Shakespeare
- The world's a stage where God's omnipotence, His justice, knowledge, love, and providence Do act the parts. -- Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas
- Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. -- Louis Pasteur
- Whoever desires this world must seek its knowledge, and whoever desires the next must seek its knowledge. -- Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi
- India has created a special momentum in world history as a country to be searched for knowledge. -- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet. -- Philip Stanhope
- Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet. -- Philip Stanhope
- Knowledge is dangerous and men lie and the world changes, whether I want it to or not. -- Patrick Ness
- The mind of man is this world's true dimension; and knowledge is the measure of the mind. -- Sir Fulke Greville
- That which is lacking in the present world is a profound knowledge of the nature of things. -- Frithjof Schuon
- Inductive inference is the only process known to us by which essentially new knowledge comes into the world. -- Ronald Fisher
- International Yoga Day is a reflection of the largest knowledge based peoples' movement the world has ever seen. -- Narendra Modi
- I do not want to bring anything when I die, my knowledge should be shared with this world, -- Bob Sadino
- All scientific knowledge to which man owes his role as master of the world arose from playful activities. -- Konrad Lorenz
- Is there any knowledge in the world which is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it? -- Bertrand Russell
- The greatest contraceptive one can have in the developing world is the knowledge that your children will live -- Julius Nyerere
- Two there are who are never satisfied -- the lover of the world and the lover of knowledge. -- Rumi
- The truly great rest in the knowledge of their own deserts, nor seek the conformation of the world. -- Alexander Smith
- I see the world as a knowledge hardware story, and every day I'm just walking through the aisles. -- Georges St-Pierre
- There is no jewel in the world comparable to learning; no learning so excellent as knowledge of laws. -- Edward Coke
- For those who have obtained unobstructed knowledge of Self, the world is seen merely as a bondage causing imagination. -- Ramana Maharshi
- Knowledge, Virtue, Power are the victories of man over his necessities, his march to the dominion of the world. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- There's no guarantee of disaster-free in any world religion,but love, faith and knowledge give men hope and willpower. -- Toba Beta
- In the world of knowledge, the idea of good appears last of all, and is seen only with effort. -- Plato
- Knowledge is the best eraser in the world for disharmony, distrust, despair, and the endless physical deficiencies of man. -- Orlando Aloysius Battista
- A Man of Knowledge like a rich Soil, feeds If not a world of Corn, a world of Weeds. -- Benjamin Franklin
- The Bible contains more knowledge necessary to man in his present state than any other book in the world. -- Benjamin Rush
- In the world of securities, courage becomes the supreme virtue after adequate knowledge and a tested judgment are at hand. -- Benjamin Graham
- When knowledge and education reach you, you have an whole new world of opportunities to be free, happy and healthy. -- Vinicius Montgomery
- Beyond the world of thought and sensorial impressions, there are planes and dimensions of perfect light, knowledge, and radiant perfection. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
- Know something about something. Don't just present your wonderful self to the world. Constantly amass knowledge and offer it around. -- Richard Holbrooke
- The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability. -- Henry Ford
- [Scientific humanism is] the only worldview compatible with science's growing knowledge of the real world and the laws of nature. -- Edward O. Wilson
- It is the vice of scholars to suppose that there is no knowledge in the world but that of books. -- William Hazlitt
- When knowledge and education reach you, you have a whole new world of opportunities to be free, happy and healthy. -- Vinicius Montgomery
- Since Plato, we have been considering the nature of knowledge, the meaning of meaning and the status of the physical world. -- Julian Baggini
- The world is perishing for lack of the knowledge of God and the Church is famishing for want of His Presence. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
- The world is perishing for lack of the knowledge of God and the Church is famishing for want of His Presence. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
- And it's much the same thing with knowledge, for whenever you learn something new, the whole world becomes that much richer. -- Norton Juster
- The world is the book of women. Whatever knowledge they may possess is more commonly acquired by observation than by reading. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- World views are social constructions and they channel the search for facts. But facts are found and knowledge progresses, however fitfully. -- Stephen Jay Gould
- Learning and knowing something is cool, but superb knowledge comes when you leave your books and become the inner world's friend. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
- Reverence for life brings us into a spiritual relation with the world which is independent of all knowledge of the universe. -- Albert Schweitzer
- Some knowledge and some song and some beauty must be kept for those days before the world again plunges into darkness. -- Marion Zimmer Bradley
- The main fuel to speed the world's progress is our stock of knowledge, and the brake is our lack of imagination. -- Julian Simon
- If we commit ourselves to reading thus increasing our knowledge, only God limits how far we can go in this world. -- Benjamin Carson
- We have the power, knowledge, and equipment to build a world beyond our wonder. Only loss of nerve can defeat us. -- James Dillet Freeman
- The assumption of perfect knowledge is very far from reality ... a lot of the evil in the world is actually not intentional. -- George Soros
- If we develop in-depth knowledge it will enable us to give our best to others and help to make a better world. -- Benjamin Carson
- Remember how unimportant you are because that knowledge will gain you more respect than someone who thinks the world revolves around them. -- Jack Kirby
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