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• If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators.

  William Hazlitt

  Topics in Genius, Knowledge, Wisdom

  Tags in Learning, Hope, Reading, Wishing

• No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

  Khalil Gibran

  Topics in Knowledge

  Tags in Already, Reveal

• The worst wheel of the cart makes the most noise.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Topics in Knowledge

  Tags in Worst, Cart, Noise

• Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Topics in Achievement, Beauty, Humanity, Knowledge, Truth

  Tags in Glory, Virtue

• Virtue is an angel, but she is a blind one, and must ask Knowledge to show her the pathway that leads to her goal.

  Horace Mann

  Topics in Knowledge

  Tags in Virtue

• My philosophy from day one is that I can sleep better at night if I can improve an individual’s knowledge about food and wine, and do it on a daily basis.

  Emeril Lagasse

  Topics in Knowledge

  Tags in Better, Food

• In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Topics in Knowledge

  Tags in Theater, Self-Knowledge, Censure, Drama, Food

• If you don’t read the newspaper, you are uninformed; if you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed.

  Mark Twain

  Topics in Knowledge, Truth

  Tags in News

• Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.

  Thomas Henry Huxley

  Topics in Knowledge

  Tags in Authority, Great, Every, Rejection

• Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.

  Thomas Fuller

  Topics in Knowledge

  Tags in Zeal, Fire

• Reason guides our attempt to understand the world about us. Both reason and compassion guide our efforts to apply that knowledge ethically, to understand other people, and have ethical relationships with other people.

  Molleen Matsumura

  Topics in Knowledge

  Tags in Ethics, Compassion, Reason, Relationships

• International relationships are preordained to be clumsy gestures based on imperfect knowledge.

  Rebecca West

  Topics in Knowledge

  Tags in Relationships

• The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith the one unpardonable sin.

  Thomas Henry Huxley

  Topics in Knowledge

  Tags in Authority, Highest, Faith, Refuses

• The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.

  René Descartes

  Topics in Knowledge

  Tags in Intuition, Understanding, Reason

• The beginning of self-knowledge: recognizing that your motives are the same as other people’s.

  Mason Cooley

  Topics in Knowledge

  Tags in Beginning

• It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.

  Thomas Sowell

  Topics in Knowledge

  Tags in Extent, Realize

• Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

  Khalil Gibran

  Topics in Knowledge

  Tags in Beginning

• A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Topics in Knowledge, Love

  Tags in Heart, Beginning

• Real knowledge, like everything else of value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for, studied for, thought for, and, more that all, must be prayed for.

  Thomas Arnold

  Topics in Knowledge, Work

  Tags in Everything, Like, Real

• The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

  Henri Bergson

  Topics in Knowledge

  Tags in Readiness