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Knowledge

«The fox knows many things - the hedgehog, one big one»
Author: Archilochus | About: Knowledge | Keywords: hedgehog, hedgehogs
«The essence of tragedy is to know the end.»
Author: Charles W. Ferguson | About: Knowledge
«The experimenter who does not know what he is looking for will not understand what he finds»
Author: Claude Bernard | About: Knowledge | Keywords: experimenter, experimenters
«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.»
«The entire object of true education, is to make people not merely do the right thing, but to enjoy right things; not merely industrious, but to love industry; not merely learned, but to love knowledge.»
«The educated do not share a common body of information, but a common state of mind»
«The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.»
«The knowledge of numbers is one of the chief distinctions between us and the brutes»
Author: Mary Worley Montagu | About: Knowledge | Keywords: brutes, distinctions
«The great end of life is not knowledge but action.»
Author: Aldous Huxley (Critic, Novelist) | About: Action, Knowledge, Life | Keywords: end of life
«The knowledge of God without that of man's misery causes pride. The knowledge of man's misery without that of God causes despair. The knowledge of Jesus Christ constitutes the middle course, because in Him we find both God and our misery.»