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Knowledge

«There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul.»
«There is hope if people will begin to awaken that spiritual part of themselves, that heartfelt knowledge that we are caretakers of this planet.»
Author: Brooke Medicine Eagle | About: Hope, Knowledge | Keywords: heartfelt
«There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge. . . observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.»
«The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all is the person who argues with him»
Author: Stanislaw Jerzy Lec | About: Knowledge | Keywords: argues, know-it-all
«There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it»
«The human condition is defined by periods of not knowing as much as one wants and is crowned by moments of thinking one knows everything.»
«There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.»
«The knowledge of the causal power of thought is the basis of all their (Hebrew) prophecies, as it is the basis of all real wisdom and power.»
Author: James Allen (Statesman) | About: Knowledge, Power, Prophecy, Wisdom | Keywords: Prophecies
«There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating; people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.»
«There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find the former an inexhaustible fund of conversation»
Author: William Hazlitt (Writer) | About: Ignorance, Knowledge | Keywords: inexhaustible