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I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is enlightenment.

Keeping the commandments . . . is at once a demonstration of our intelligence, our knowledge, our character, and our wisdom.

Knowing has two poles, and they are always poles apart: carnal knowing, the laying on of hands, the hanging of the fact by head or heels, the measurement of mass and motion, the calibration of brutal blows, the counting of supplies; and spiritual knowing, invisibly felt by the inside self, who is but a fought-over field of distraction, a stage where we recite the monotonous monologue that is our life, a knowing governed by internal tides, by intimations, motives, resolutions, by temptations, secrecy, shame, and pride.

Knowing how hard it is to collect a fact, you understand why most people want to have some fun analyzing it.

Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.

Knowledge is also borrowed. It is not a flower that grows in your soul, it is something plastic that has been imposed upon you.

Knowledge is a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.

Knowledge is knowing as little as possible.

Knowledge is more than equivalent to force. The master of mechanics laughs at strength.

Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person.

Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility.

Knowledge is the antidote to fear,- Knowledge, Use and Reason, with its higher aids.

Knowledge is the prime need of the hour.

Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.

Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.

Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.

Knowledge signifies things known. Where there are no things known, there is no knowledge. Where there are no things to be known, there can be no knowledge. We have observed that every science, that is, every branch of knowledge, is compounded of certain facts, of which our sensations furnish the evidence. Where no such evidence is supplied, we are without data; we are without first premises; and when, without these, we attempt to build up a science, we do as those who raise edifices without foundations. And what do such builders construct? Castles in the air.

Knowledge and devotion, to be true, have to stand the test of renunciation of the fruits of action.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

Knowledge falters when imagination clips its wings or fears to use them.

Knowledge has always been important, of course. The ancient Egyptians did not raise the stones for the pyramids relying on the incantations of their gods. The waters in the irrigation canals of the great Indus Civilisation did not flow according to the laws of ignorance. Knowledge has always been power and wealth.

Knowledge is more a matter of learning than of the exercise of absolute judgment. Learning requires time, and in time the situation dealt with, as well as the learner, undergoes change.

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Knowledge is the distilled essence of our institutions, corroborated by experience.

Knowledge must come through action. You can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.

Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

Knowledge comes through likeness. And so because the soul may know everything, it is never at rest until it comes to the original idea, in which all things are one. And there it comes to rest in God.

Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

Knowledge has its boundary line, where it abuts on ignorance; on the outside of that boundary line are ignorance and miracles; on the inside of it are science and no miracles.

Knowledge has three degrees--opinion, science, illumination. The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.

Knowledge is a collective enterprise. Without it understanding is impossible. Ignorance is too often a murderous vulnerability.

Knowledge is a process, not a product.

Knowledge is a sacred cow, and my problem will be how we can milk her while keeping clear of her horns.

Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.

Knowledge is porportionate to being... You know in virtue of what you are.

Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment the treasurer, of a wise man.

Knowledge of anatomy is a tool like good brushes.

Knowledge of means without knowledge of ends is animal training.

Knowledge ... shall always bear witness like a clarion to its creator.

Knowledge was inherent in all things. The world was a library.

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Knowledge without devotion is like a stone in water.

Knowledge we have. Anyone who strives for it with particular intensity is suspect of striving against it.

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

Knowledge without know-how is sterile. We use the word academic in a pejorative sense to identify this limitation.

Know or listen to those who know.

Know what you do not know.

Knox was engaged in a theological discussion with scientist John Scott Haldane. 'In a universe containing millions of planets,' reasoned Haldane, 'is it not inevitable that life should appear on at least one of them?' 'Sir,' replied Knox, 'if Scotland Yard found a body in your cabin trunk, would you tell them: 'There are millions of trunks in the world; surely one of them must contain a body? I think the would still want to know who put it there'.