Quotes about knowledge

"Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly."

Gide, Andre on knowledge   

"He knows so little and knows it so fluently."

Glasgow, Ellen on knowledge   

"The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on knowledge
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"What is not fully understood is not possessed."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on knowledge   

"Never by reflection, but only by doing is self-knowledge possible to one."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on knowledge   

"True knowledge lies in knowing how to live."

Gracian, Baltasar on knowledge   

"A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows."

Gurdjieff, George on knowledge   

"All knowledge is ambiguous."

Habgood, J. S. on knowledge   

"Seldom if ever was knowledge given to keep, but always to impart. The grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment."

Hall, Bishop on knowledge   

"The man who is too old to learn was probably always too old to learn."

Haskins, Caryl on knowledge
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"Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others."

Herder, Johann Gottfried Von on knowledge   

"There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge -- that is everywhere."

Hesse, Hermann on knowledge   

"Knowledge is only potential power."

Hill, Napoleon on knowledge   

"Man is distinguished, not only by his reason; but also by this singular passion from other animals... which is a lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of knowledge, exceeds the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure."

Hobbes, Thomas on knowledge   

"Knowledge like timber shouldn't be mush use till they are seasoned."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on knowledge   

"Since we can't know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is senseless to try to teach it in advance. Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much and learn so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned."

Holt, John on knowledge
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"Knowledge without education is but armed injustice."

Horace on knowledge   

"You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I know that is not so."

Hunt, William Morris on knowledge   

"Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority."

Huxley, Thomas H. on knowledge   

"Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another."

James, William on knowledge   

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"Boys, I may not know much, but I know chicken shit from chicken salad."

Johnson, Lyndon B. on knowledge
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"The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it."

Johnson, Samuel on knowledge   

"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   

"Man is not weak; knowledge is more than equivalent to force."

Johnson, Samuel on knowledge   

"Knowledge is of two kinds: We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information about it."

Johnson, Samuel on knowledge   

"Knowledge always demands increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but will afterwards always propagate itself."

Johnson, Samuel on knowledge   

"Knowledge is more than equivalent to force."

Johnson, Samuel on knowledge   

"Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also."

Jung, Carl on knowledge
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"All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price."

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis) on knowledge   

"Knowledge is power. Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -- broad, deep knowledge -- is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to feel the great heartthrobs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life."

Keller, Helen 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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"It's a dangerous thing to think we know everything."

Kuehler, Jack on knowledge   

"To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty."

Lao-Tzu on knowledge
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"Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize."

Lasch, Christopher on knowledge   

"Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied words with little or no meaning have, by prescription, such a right to be mistaken for deep learning and height of speculation, that it will not be easy to persuade either those who speak or those who hear them, that they are but the covers of ignorance and hindrance of true knowledge."

Locke, John on knowledge   

"Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing."

Lorenz, Konrad on knowledge   

"True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment."

Lowell, James Russell on knowledge   

"He mastered whatever was not worth the knowing."

Lowell, James Russell on knowledge   

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"Knowledge is and will be produced in order to be sold, it is and will be consumed in order to be valorized in a new production: in both cases, the goal is exchange. Knowledge ceases to be an end in itself, it loses its use-value."

Lyotard, Jean Francois on knowledge   

"Charles V. said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so valued learning, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge that, than his father Philip for giving him life."

Macaulay, Thomas B. on knowledge