Quotes on knowledge

I have gained this by philosophy that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

~ Aristotle

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To them that ask, where have you seen the gods, or how do you know for certain there are gods, that you are so devout in their worship I answer Neither have I ever seen my own soul, and yet I respect and honor it.

~ Marcus Aelius Aurelius

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Bed is the poor man's opera.

~ Italian Proverb

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Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.

~ Peter Drucker

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It is one of those beautiful compensations of this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

~ Charles Dudley Warner

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First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.

~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are condemned indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of information, or...of something else.

~ Jane Austen

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Assumptions allow the best in life to pass you by.

~ John Sales

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When ideas fail, words come in very handy.

~ Johann von Goethe

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Tis the witching hour of night, Orbed is the moon and bright, And the stars they glisten, glisten, Seeming with bright eyes to listen For what listen they

~ John Keats

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