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    Albert Einstein
    “Any fool can know. The point is to understand.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: knowledge, learning, understanding, wisdom
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    Maya Angelou
    “I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.”
    ― Maya Angelou
    tags: attributed, attributed-no-source, education, intelligence, knowledge, unsourced
    5692 likes

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    Daniel J. Boorstin
    “The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.”
    ― Daniel J. Boorstin
    tags: misattributed-stephen-hawking
    3239 likes

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    Anaïs Nin
    “The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.”
    ― Anais Nin
    tags: knowledge, mystery, sense-of-wonder, spirituality
    2081 likes

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    Carl Sagan
    “For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.”
    ― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
    tags: cosmology, delusion, knowledge, religion, science, truth, understanding
    1814 likes

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    Robertson Davies
    “The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.”
    ― Robertson Davies, Tempest-Tost
    tags: belief, bias, knowledge, perception, philosophy, reality
    1058 likes

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  • #7
    Benjamin Franklin
    “An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.”
    ― Benjamin Franklin, The Way to Wealth: Ben Franklin on Money and Success
    tags: knowledge
    871 likes

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  • #8
    William Blake
    “What is now proved was once only imagined.”
    ― William Blake
    tags: english-poet, inspirational, knowledge, willpower
    846 likes

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    Alexandre Dumas
    “Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy.”
    ― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
    tags: knowledge, philosophy
    969 likes

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    Alexander Pope
    “A little Learning is a dangerous Thing.”
    ― Alexander Pope
    tags: knowledge, misattributed-to-einstein, misquote, misquoted
    714 likes

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  • #11
    Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
    “Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.”
    ― Johann wolfgang von Goethe
    tags: knowledge
    642 likes

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  • #12
    Leonardo da Vinci
    “The knowledge of all things is possible”
    ― Leonardo da Vinci
    tags: creativity, curiosity, knowledge, learning
    565 likes

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  • #13
    Bram Stoker
    “Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker”
    ― Bram Stoker, Dracula
    tags: knowledge, memory
    639 likes

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  • #14
    Albert Einstein
    “Information is not knowledge.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: information, knowledge
    463 likes

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  • #15
    Lao Tzu
    “Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.”
    ― Lao Tzu
    tags: knowledge
    458 likes

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  • #16
    Oscar Wilde
    “nothing that is worth knowing can be taught”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: education, experience, knowledge
    373 likes

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  • #17
    Ursula K. Le Guin
    “To light a candle is to cast a shadow...”
    ― Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea
    tags: balance, equilibrium, evil, good, knowledge, taoism
    484 likes

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  • #18
    Dan Brown
    “The power of human thought grows exponentially with the number of minds that share that thought.”
    ― Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol
    tags: knowledge, spirituality
    303 likes

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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
    “Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.”
    ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Maxims and Reflections
    tags: communication, knowledge, languages, travel, understanding
    323 likes

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    Aristotle
    “All men by nature desire to know.”
    ― Aristotle, Metaphysics
    tags: knowledge, philosophy
    313 likes

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    Immanuel Kant
    “All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.”
    ― immanuel kant, Critique of Pure Reason
    tags: empiricism, knowledge, rationalism, reason, senses, understanding
    338 likes

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  • #22
    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    “The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have known since long.”
    ― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations
    tags: information, knowledge, problems
    331 likes

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  • #23
    Thomas Hobbes
    “Scientia potentia est.

    Knowledge is power.”
    ― Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
    tags: knowledge, power
    240 likes

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  • #24
    Dan Brown
    “Knowledge grows exponentially. The more we know, the greater our ability to learn, and the faster we expand our knowledge base.”
    ― Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol
    tags: knowledge
    184 likes

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    Charles Baudelaire
    “I set out to discover the why of it, and to transform my pleasure into knowledge.”
    ― Charles Baudelaire
    tags: curiosity, knowledge, pleasure
    179 likes

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    Terry Goodkind
    “Knowledge is a weapon. I intend to be formidably armed.”
    ― Terry Goodkind
    tags: knowledge
    225 likes

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  • #27
    John Locke
    “The only defense against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.”
    ― John Locke, Some Thoughts Concerning Education
    tags: defense, knowledge
    227 likes

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    Carl Sagan
    “Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence is not information alone but also judgement, the manner in which information is co-ordinated and used. Still, the amount of information to which we have accessed is one index of our intelligence.”
    ― Carl Sagan, Cosmos
    tags: intelligence, knowledge, smart
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  • #29
    “Get your knowledge fast, apply faster”
    ― Filipe Leuch Bonfim
    tags: fast, knowledge
    2 likes

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  • #30
    Gertrude Stein
    “Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.”
    ― Gertrude Stein
    tags: knowledge, wisdom
    285 likes



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