Quotes about knowledge

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

Confucius on knowledge
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"The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance."

Confucius 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."

Confucius 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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"Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, the mere materials with which wisdom builds, till smoothed and squared and fitted to its place, does but encumber whom it seems to enrich. Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much; wisdom is humble that he knows no more."

Cowper, William on knowledge   

"Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; Wisdom is humble that it knows no more."

Cowper, William on knowledge
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"To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody."

Crisp, Quentin on knowledge   

"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   

"Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within."

Cudworth, Ralph J. on knowledge   

"Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination."

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.) on knowledge
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"Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things."

Degas, Edgar on knowledge   

"Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid."

Denham, Sir John on knowledge   

"There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge available to us: observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination. Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common."

Diderot, Denis on knowledge   

"Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones."

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan on knowledge   

"Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement."

Drucker, Peter F. on knowledge
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"Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes."

Drucker, Peter F. on knowledge   

"Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul."

Durant, William J. on knowledge   

"The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge."

Eckhart, Meister on knowledge   

"We don't know one-millionth of one percent about anything."

Edison, Thomas A. on knowledge
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"During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief."

Einstein, Albert 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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"Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be; whereas Ignorance is a blind giant who, let him but wax unbound, would make it a sport to seize the pillars that hold up the long-wrought fabric of human good, and turn all the places of joy as dark as a buried Babylon."

Eliot, George on knowledge   

"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   

"Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on knowledge
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"Knowledge is the only elegance."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on knowledge   

"Knowledge comes by eyes always open and working hands; and there is no knowledge that is not power."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on knowledge
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"Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly."

Epictetus on knowledge
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"It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows."

Epictetus on knowledge   

"The mark of a well educated person is not necessarily in knowing all the answers, but in knowing where to find them."

Everett, Douglas on knowledge
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"Knowledge, without common sense, says Lee, is folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death. But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace."

Farrar, Austin on knowledge   

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

Fischer, Martin H. on knowledge
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"For lust of knowing what should not be known, we take the Golden Road to Samarkand."

Flecker, James Elroy on knowledge   

"God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country!"

Franklin, Benjamin on knowledge   

"Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't."

Franklin, Benjamin on knowledge   

"It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches."

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II) on knowledge   

"Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it."

Fuller, Thomas on knowledge
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"To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business."

Getty, J. Paul on knowledge   

"Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge."

Gibran, Kahlil on knowledge   

"No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge."

Gibran, Kahlil on knowledge   

"A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle."

Gibran, Kahlil on knowledge
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