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Knowledge

«Universities are full of Knowledge; the freshmen bring a little in, the seniors take none away, and the knowledge there accumulates»
«We have limited knowledge, or else science and philosophy would not be necessary.»
«We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire; the more we see, the more we are capable of seeing.»
Author: Maria Mitchell (Astronomer) | About: Knowledge | Keywords: all-around, asks, hunger
«Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge»
«Try to put well in practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about.»
«We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.»
«Want of care does us more damage than want of knowledge»
«we can understand almost anything, but we can't understand how we understand»
Author: Albert Einstein (Physicist) | About: Knowledge | Keywords: almost, anything, understand
«Well-being and happiness never appeared to me as an absolute aim. I am even inclined to compare such moral aims to the ambitions of a pig.»
«We know lots of things we didn't use to know but we don't know any way to prevent 'em from happening»
Author: Will Rogers | About: Knowledge | Keywords: happening, lots, prevent