Quotes about knowledge

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

Ruskin, John on knowledge   

"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   

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

Russell, Bertrand on knowledge   

"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   

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

Santayana, George on knowledge   

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

Saying on knowledge   

"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   

"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   

"We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself. It seems, to judge from the argument, that the wisdom which we desire and upon which we profess to have set our hearts will be attainable only when we are dead and not in our lifetime."

Socrates on knowledge   

"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   

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

Starr, Lonny on knowledge   

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

Sterne, Laurence on knowledge   

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

Stevens, Ray on knowledge   

"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   

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

Swinnock on knowledge   

"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   

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

Thoreau, Henry David on knowledge   

"The knowledge of an unlearned man is living and luxuriant like a forest, but covered with mosses and lichens and for the most part inaccessible and going to waste; the knowledge of the man of science is like timber collected in yards for public works, which still supports a green sprout here and there, but even this is liable to dry rot."

Thoreau, Henry David on knowledge   

"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   

"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."

Twain, Mark on knowledge   

"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."

Unknown, Source on knowledge   

"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."

Unknown, Source on knowledge   

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

Unknown, Source on knowledge   

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

Unknown, Source on knowledge   

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

Unknown, Source on knowledge   

"Know-how will surpass guess-how."

Unknown, Source on knowledge   

"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."

Unknown, Source on knowledge   

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

Unknown, Source on knowledge   

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

Van Horne, William on knowledge