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• Expect to feel pleasure. Knowledge is sexy. Expect to feel pain. Knowledge is torture.

  Jeff Noon

  Topics in Knowledge

  Tags in Expect

• Knowledge was like candy: you never turned it down, especially if you didn’t have to work too hard to get it.

  Robert Liparulo

  Topics in Knowledge

• The Curse of Knowledge: when we are given knowledge, it is impossible to imagine what it’s like to lack that knowledge.

  Chip Heath

  Topics in Knowledge

• Knowledge is not just the preserve of the educated elite. Just because someone has not had a formal education, that does not mean he does not have wisdom and common sense.

  Vikas Swarup

  Topics in Knowledge, Wisdom

  Tags in Educated, Formal

• Sometimes street knowledge can be as important as book knowledge.

  Vikas Swarup

  Topics in Knowledge

  Tags in Book, Sometimes

• Let knowledge grow from more to more, But more of reverence in us dwell; That mind and soul, according well, May make one music as before.

  Alfred Tennyson

  Topics in Knowledge

• You seek for knowledge and wisdom as I once did; and I ardently hope that the gratification of your wishes may not be a serpent to sting you, as mine has been.

  Mary Shelley

  Topics in Knowledge, Wisdom

• If we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself.

  Plato

  Topics in Knowledge

• It’s common knowledge that a large percentage of Wall Street brokers use astrology.

  Donald Regan

  Topics in Knowledge

  Tags in Street, Percentage

• Knowledge advances by steps, and not by leaps.

  Thomas Babington Macaulay

  Topics in Knowledge

• It has lately been brought to my knowledge That the Ministers fully design To suppress each cathedral and college, And eject every learned divine. To assist this detestable scheme Three nuncios from Rome are come over; They left Calais on Monday by steam, And landed to dinner at Dover.

  Thomas Babington Macaulay

  Topics in Knowledge

• The love of knowledge is a kind of madness.

  C. S. Lewis

  Topics in Knowledge, Love

  Tags in Curiosity, Kind

• The knowledge that she would never be loved in return acted upon her ideas as a tide acts upon cliffs.

  Thornton Wilder

  Topics in Knowledge

  Tags in Return, Ideas

• I think a lot of people, even Christians, are willing to be satisfied with gaining lots and lots of biblical knowledge – and many people go to Bible studies and don’t realize it isn’t enough to know what’s right, it’s applying the information and the knowledge that you have.

  Charles Stanley

  Topics in Knowledge

  Tags in Applying, Realize

• The benefit of the radio is, something beyond your realm of knowledge can surprise you, can enter your realm of knowledge.

  Esperanza Spalding

  Topics in Knowledge

  Tags in Realm, Surprise

• The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Topics in Knowledge, Life

  Tags in Meaningless, Attainable

• The range of our knowledge of reality is limited by our pre-existing beliefs, assumptions, and expectations.

  Cynthia Sue Larson

  Topics in Knowledge

• Action from the area of knowledge is never complete.

  Unknown

  Topics in Inspirational, Knowledge

• All your knowledge is dust. Knowing is your purity, knowledge is dust.

  Osho

  Topics in Education, Knowledge

• Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.

  Isaac Asimov

  Topics in Democracy, Knowledge, Life

  Tags in Elitist, Elite, Voting