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  Knowledge Quotes - The known is finite, the unknown infinite   “There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.” ― Robert Burns, Collected Poems of Robert Burns   “It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down.” ― George Eliot, Daniel Deronda   “Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery.” ― Miles Davis, Miles: The Autobiography   “Take the matter as you find it ask no questions, utter no remonstrances; it is your best wisdom. You expected bread and you have got a stone: break your teeth on it, and don't shriek because the nerves are martyrised; do not doubt that your mental stomach - if you have such a thing - is strong as an ostrich's; the stone will digest. You held out your hand for an egg, and fate put into it a scorpion. Show no consternation; close your fingers firmly upon the gift; let it sting throug...

  Knowledge Quotes - Give me the storm and tempest of thought and action   “You could give Aristotle a tutorial. And you could thrill him to the core of his being. Aristotle was an encyclopedic polymath, an all time intellect. Yet not only can you know more than him about the world. You also can have a deeper understanding of how everything works. Such is the privilege of living after Newton, Darwin, Einstein, Planck, Watson, Crick and their colleagues.   I'm not saying you're more intelligent than Aristotle, or wiser. For all I know, Aristotle's the cleverest person who ever lived. That's not the point. The point is only that science is cumulative, and we live later.” ― Richard Dawkins   “Give me the storm and tempest of thought and action, rather than the dead calm of ignorance and faith! Banish me from Eden when you will; but first let me eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge!” ― Robert G. Ingersoll, The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll   “N...

  Knowledge Quotes - A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge   “Education doesn’t make you happy. Nor does freedom. We don’t become happy just because we’re free – if we are. Or because we’ve been educated – if we have. But because education may be the means by which we realize we are happy. It opens our eyes, our ears, tells us where delights are lurking, convinces us that there is only one freedom of any importance whatsoever, that of the mind, and gives us the assurance – the confidence – to walk the path our mind, our educated mind, offers.” ― Iris Murdoch   “No one knows anything, really. It's all rented, or borrowed.” ― Ian McEwan   “People think that epilepsy is divine simply because they don't have any idea what causes epilepsy. But I believe that someday we will understand what causes epilepsy, and at that moment, we will cease to believe that it's divine. And so it is with everything in the universe” ― Hippocrates   “To for...

  Knowledge Quotes - Fear grew in places unlit by knowledge   “There is but one coward on earth, and that is the coward that dare not know.” ― W.E.B. DuBois, Dusk of Dawn: An Essay Toward an Autobiography of a Race Concept   “Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.” ― Baruch Spinoza, Ethics   “So runs my dream, but what am I? An infant crying in the night An infant crying for the light And with no language but a cry.” ― Lord Alfred Tennyson, In Memoriam   “Knowledge is a tool, and like all tools, its impact is in the hands of the user.” ― Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol   “Never judge someone's character based on the words of another. Instead, study the motives behind the words of the person casting the bad judgment. An honest woman can sell tangerines all day and remain a good person until she dies, but there will always be naysayers who will try to convince you ot...

  Knowledge Quotes - Knowledge grows exponentially   “We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation -rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays Including Essays, First & Second Series, English Traits, Nature & Considerations by the Way   “I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure — that is all that agnosticism means.” ― Clarence Darrow   “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   “I set out to discover the why of it, and to transform my pleasure into knowledge.” ― Charles Baudelaire   “It's funny. No matter how hard you try, you can't close your heart forever. And the minu...