"You don't know how much you know until you know how much you don't know."

Unknown on Knowledge
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"I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on Knowledge
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"You have to believe in God before you can say there are things that man was not meant to know. I don't think there's anything man wasn't meant to know. There are just some stupid things that people shouldn't do."

Cronenberg, David on Knowledge
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"To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody."

Crisp, Quentin on Knowledge
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"You can't know too much, but you can say too much."

Coolidge, Calvin on Knowledge
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"When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it--this is knowledge."

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"To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge."

Confucius on Knowledge
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"We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed."

Colton, Charles Caleb on Knowledge
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"Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom."

Cicero, Marcus T. on Knowledge
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"There's a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge is, at bottom, the search for the answer to the question: Where was I before I was born. In the beginning was what? Perhaps, in the beginning, there was a curious room, a room like this one, crammed with wonders; and now the room and all it contains are forbidden you, although it was made just for you, had been prepared for you since time began, and you will spend all your life trying to remember it."

Carter, Angela on Knowledge
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"I think I could, if I only knew how to begin. For, you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately that Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible."

Carroll, Lewis on Knowledge
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"Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life."

Carey, Sandara on Knowledge
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"Some people drink deeply from the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle."

Bright, Grant M. on Knowledge
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"The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody's word about them."

Bolingbroke, Henry on Knowledge
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"I honestly believe it is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so."

Billings, Josh on Knowledge
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"Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify."

Bierce, Ambrose on Knowledge
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"The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction. [King Solomon]"

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"How do you know so much about everything? was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant."

Abbott, John on Knowledge
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"Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification."

Fischer, Martin H. on Knowledge
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"No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge."

Gibran, Kahlil on Knowledge
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"A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle."

Gibran, Kahlil on Knowledge
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"It is nothing for one to know something unless another knows you know it."

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"The less you know, the more you think you know, because you don't know you don't know."

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"I wish I knew what I know now before."

Stewart, Rod on Knowledge
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"To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge."

Thoreau, Henry David on Knowledge
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"Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows."

Unknown, Source on Knowledge
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"We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance."

Wheeler, John Archibald on Knowledge
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"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating --people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."

Wilde, Oscar on Knowledge
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"Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be."

Einstein, Albert on Knowledge
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"Who knows most believes least."

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"Far better is it to know everything of a little than a little of everything."

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"Those who think they know it all are very annoying to those of us who do."

Mueller, Robert K. on Knowledge
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"The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn."

Haskins, Caryl on Knowledge
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"The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it."

Johnson, Samuel on Knowledge
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"More knowledge may be gained of a man's real character by a short conversation with one of his servants than from a formal and studied narrative, begun with his pedigree and ended with his funeral."

Johnson, Samuel on Knowledge
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"The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds."

Kennedy, John F. on Knowledge
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"He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that."

Mill, John Stuart on Knowledge
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"Sin, guilt, neurosis --they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge."

Miller, Henry on Knowledge
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"The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on Knowledge
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"The worst solitude is to have no real friendships."

Bacon, Francis on Friends and Friendship
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