Nine-tenths of the people were created
so you would want to be with the other tenth.
- Horace Walpole
Possession isn't nine-tenths of the law.
It's nine-tenths of the problem.
- John Lennon
Ninety-nine percent of who you are
is invisible and untouchable.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Ninety-nine percent of the failures
come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
- George Washington Carver
A democracy is nothing more than mob rule,
where fifty-one percent of the people
may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.
- attributed to Thomas Jefferson
I think and think for months and years.
Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false.
The hundredth time I am right.
- Albert Einstein
Genius is one percent inspiration
and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
- Thomas Edison
There are nine requisites for contented living:
HEALTH enough to make work a pleasure;
WEALTH enough to support your needs;
STRENGTH enough to battle with difficulties and forsake them;
GRACE enough to confess your sins and overcome them;
PATIENCE enough to toil until some good is accomplished;
CHARITY enough to see some good in your neighbor;
LOVE enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others;
FAITH enough to make real the things of God;
HOPE enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The possession of knowledge does not
kill the sense of wonder and mystery.
There is always more mystery.
- Anais Nin 
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession
as they torment us with their loss.
- Epicurus
The search for truth is more precious than its possession.
- Albert Einstein
Every increased possession
loads us with a new weariness.
- John Ruskin
Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity
are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Health is the greatest possession.
Contentment is the greatest treasure.
Confidence is the greatest friend.
Non-being is the greatest joy.
- Lao Tzu
Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine,
a possession for all time.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Music is everybody's possession.
It's only publishers who think that people own it.
- John Lennon
It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble.
It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.
- Mark Twain (attributed)
Most people's historical perspective
begins with the day of their birth.
- Rush Limbaugh
Belief is not the beginning but the end of all knowledge.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Our faith gives us knowledge of something better.
- E. F. Schumacher
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge:
it is those who know little, and not those who know much,
who so positively assert that this or that problem
will never be solved by science.
- Charles Darwin
Where ignorance is our master,
there is no possibility of real peace.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
- Thomas Henry Huxley
The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge
and the dissemination of truth.
- John F. Kennedy
Uncertainty that comes from knowledge
(knowing what you don't know)
is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance.
- Isaac Asimov
When I examine myself and my methods of thought,
I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy
has meant more to me than
any talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
- Albert Einstein
Whoever loves instruction loves knowledge,
but he who hates correction is stupid.
- Anonymous
The gift of fantasy has meant more to me
than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
- Albert Einstein
To be conscious that you are ignorant
is a great step to knowledge.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Knowledge of what is, does not open
the door directly to what should be.
- Albert Einstein
Beware of false knowledge;
it is more dangerous than ignorance.
- George Bernard Shaw
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
- Carl Jung
Whoever undertakes to set himself up
as a judge of Truth and Knowledge
is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
- Albert Einstein
Knowledge is love and light and vision.
- Helen Keller
The greater our knowledge increases
the more our ignorance unfolds.
- John F. Kennedy
In today's knowledge-based economy,
what you earn depends on what you learn.
- William J. Clinton
I believe life's rich experiences need to be shared with others -
for me this is the way one builds knowledge.
- Pravs J
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
- Confucius
The bulk of the world's knowledge is an imaginary construction.
- Helen Keller
Knowledge is of the mind, wisdom is of the soul.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Knowledge is limited.
Imagination encircles the world.
- Albert Einstein
Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is the province of knowledge to speak,
and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
- Socrates
Knowledge talks, Wisdom listens.
- Anonymous
There comes a time when the mind
takes a higher plane of knowledge
but can never prove how it got there.
- Albert Einstein
To acquire knowledge, one must study;
but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
- Marilyn vos Savant
The true sign of intelligence
is not knowledge but imagination.
- Albert Einstein
Knowledge is soon changed, then lost in the mist, an echo half-heard.
- Gene Wolfe
Knowledge is a process of piling up facts;
wisdom lies in their simplification.
- Martin Fischer
Science gives man knowledge, which is power;
religion gives man wisdom, which is control.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -
broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false,
and lofty things from low.
- Helen Keller
The difference between a successful person and others
is not a lack of strength,
not a lack of knowledge,
but rather a lack of will.
- Vince Lombardi
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
- Jimi Hendrix
We know nothing at all.
All our knowledge is but the knowledge of schoolchildren.
The real nature of things we shall never know.
- Albert Einstein
If money is your hope for independence,
you will never have it.
The only real security that
a man can have in this world
is a reserve of knowledge,
experience and ability.
- Henry Ford
If a man empties his purse into his head,
no man can take it away from him.
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
- Benjamin Franklin
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
- Albert Einstein
Borrowing knowledge of reality from all sources,
taking the best from every study,
Science of Mind brings together
the highest enlightenment of the ages.
- Ernest Holmes
The most telling act of true Faith
is celebrating the death of a loved one
with the certain knowledge that
they are now in a better place.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
True friendship can afford true knowledge.
It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
- Henry David Thoreau
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -
it is the illusion of knowledge.
- Daniel J. Boorstin
The only source of knowledge is experience.
- Albert Einstein
Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth,
and if a man does not know what a thing is,
it is at least an increase in knowledge
if he knows what it is not.
- Carl Jung
The universal Mind contains all knowledge.
It is the potential ultimate of all things.
To it, all things are possible.
- Ernest Holmes
Information is not knowledge.
- Albert Einstein
Knowledge of the Truth makes us free
by aligning us with that which was never bound.
- Ernest Holmes
All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.
- Leonardo da Vinci
"To know" is to know that you know nothing.
That is the meaning of true knowledge.
- Confucius
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