Quotes about knowledge

"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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"I find that a great part of the information I have, was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way."

Adams, Franklin P. on knowledge
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"Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another."

Addison, Joseph on knowledge
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"Man knows more than he understands."

Adler, Alfred on knowledge
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"Real knowledge, like everything else of value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for, studied for, thought for, and, more that all, must be prayed for."

Arnold, Thomas on knowledge   

"Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you: you must acquire it."

Back, Sudie on knowledge
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"Knowledge is power."

Bacon, Francis on knowledge
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"Knowledge and human power are synonymous."

Bacon, Francis on knowledge
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"Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch."

Ball, Ivern on knowledge
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"I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can."

Ball, Lucille on knowledge
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"Knowledge is the best eraser in the world for disharmony, distrust, despair, and the endless physical deficiencies of man."

Battista, Orlando A. on knowledge
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"I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well."

Benchley, Robert on knowledge   

"It is not good to know more unless we do more with what we already know."

Bergethon, R. K. on knowledge   

"It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning."

Bernard, Claude on knowledge   

"Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge is meditation. But better still is surrender of attachment to results, because there follows immediate peace."

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

Bible on knowledge
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"And you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free. [John 8:32]"

Bible on knowledge
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"Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify."

Bierce, Ambrose on knowledge   

"I honestly believe it is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so."

Billings, Josh on knowledge   

"Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves."

Billings, Josh on knowledge   

"The trouble with most folks ain't so much their ignorance as knowing so many things that ain't so."

Billings, Josh on knowledge   

"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   

"Some people drink deeply from the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle."

Bright, Grant M. on knowledge
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"To me the charm of an encyclopedia is that it knows and I needn't."

Brown, Francis Yeats on knowledge   

"To know the right means of getting something done is virtually to have done it."

Caine, Mark on knowledge   

"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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"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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"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   

"A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting."

Castaneda, Carlos on knowledge
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"It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity."

Channing, William Ellery on knowledge   

"Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh."

Chesterfield, Lord on knowledge   

"Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet."

Chesterfield, Lord on knowledge   

"Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them."

Chesterfield, Lord on knowledge   

"One may understand the Cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on knowledge   

"If you have knowledge, let others light their candles with it."

Churchill, Winston on knowledge
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"Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom."

Cicero, Marcus T. on knowledge   

"To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it."

Colton, Charles Caleb on knowledge   

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

Colton, Charles Caleb on knowledge   

"Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage."

Comte, Auguste on knowledge   

"Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others."

Confucius on knowledge
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