#knowledge

Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous. ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

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I would rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent than in the extent of my powers and dominion. ↗

— Alexander the Great

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Although your knowledge is weak and small, you need not be silent: since you cannot be judges be at least witnesses. ↗

— Franz Grillparzer

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Those who want to row on the ocean of human knowledge do not get far, and the storm drives those out of their course who set sail. ↗

— Franz Grillparzer

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The knowledge of the realm of death makes it possible for the shaman to move freely back and forth and mediate these journeys for other people. ↗

— Stanislav Grof

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Courage is... the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared. ↗

— David Ben-Gurion

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There are a lot of directors who are knowledgeable about images, and others who aren't. ↗

— Conrad Hall

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Education can counteract the natural tendency to do the wrong thing, but the inexorable succession of generations requires that the basis for this knowledge be constantly refreshed. ↗

— Garrett Hardin

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A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge. ↗

— B. H. Liddell Hart

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