Quotes about knowledge




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"Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure."

Ruskin, John on knowledge    Share


"The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts- the less you know the hotter you get."

Russell, Bertrand on knowledge    Share

"There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge."

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"Knowledge of ourselves teaches us whence we come, where we are and whither we are going. We come from God and we are in exile; and it is because our potency of affection lends towards God that we are aware of this state of exile."

Ruysbroeck, Jan Van on knowledge    Share

"Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace."

Santayana, George on knowledge    Share

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"Knowledge, humbles a great person, astonishes the common, and puffs up the small."

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"As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value to you than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself."

Schopenhauer, Arthur on knowledge    Share

"Own more than thou showest, speak less than thou knowest."

Shakespeare, William on knowledge
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"One-tenth of the folks run the world. One-tenth watch them run it, and the other eighty percent don't know what the hell's going on."

Simmons, Jake on knowledge
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"Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession -- a property entirely our own."

Smiles, Samuel on knowledge    Share

"One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing."

Socrates on knowledge
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"The long unmeasured pulse of time moves everything. There is nothing hidden that it cannot bring to light, nothing once known that may not become unknown."

Sophocles on knowledge    Share

"No matter what happens, there's always somebody who knew it would."

Starr, Lonny on knowledge    Share

"The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it."

Sterne, Laurence on knowledge    Share

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

Stevens, Ray on knowledge    Share

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

Stewart, Rod on knowledge
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"It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing."

Stoppard, Tom on knowledge    Share

"Knowledge without practice is like a glass eye, all for show, and nothing for use."

Swinnock on knowledge    Share

"Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; love by love."

Szasz, Thomas on knowledge
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"Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers."

Tennyson, Lord Alfred on knowledge
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"They are so knowing, that they know nothing."

Terence on knowledge    Share

"Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven."

Thoreau, Henry David on knowledge    Share

"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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"Knowledge is the most democratic source of power."

Toffler, Alvin on knowledge    Share

"We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter."

Twain, Mark on knowledge
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"The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain't so."

Twain, Mark on knowledge
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"Between us, we cover all knowledge; he knows all that can be known and I know the rest."

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"A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way."

Twain, Mark on knowledge
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"Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive."

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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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"Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one."

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"Some students drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle."

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"Many of us don't have to turn out the lights to be in the dark."

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"Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to practical use."

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"Know-how will surpass guess-how."

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"A wise man, when asked how he had learned so much about everything, replied: By never being ashamed or afraid to ask questions about anything of which I was ignorant."

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"No man knows less than the man who knows it all"

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"Nothing is too small to know, and nothing too big to attempt."

Van Horne, William on knowledge    Share

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