211 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.
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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.
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Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another.
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Man knows more than he understands.
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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.
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Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you: you must acquire it.
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Knowledge is power.
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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.
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Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.
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I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.
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Knowledge is the best eraser in the world for disharmony, distrust, despair, and the endless physical deficiencies of man.
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I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.
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It is not good to know more unless we do more with what we already know.
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It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning.
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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.
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The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction. [King Solomon]
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And you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free. [John 8:32]
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Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.
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I honestly believe it is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.
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Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.
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The trouble with most folks ain't so much their ignorance as knowing so many things that ain't so.
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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.
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Some people drink deeply from the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
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To me the charm of an encyclopedia is that it knows and I needn't.
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To know the right means of getting something done is virtually to have done it.
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Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.
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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.
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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.
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A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.
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It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.
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Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.
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Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
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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.
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One may understand the Cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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If you have knowledge, let others light their candles with it.
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Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.
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To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.
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We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.
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Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.
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Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.
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To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.
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The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.
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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.
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You can't know too much, but you can say too much.
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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.
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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; Wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
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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.
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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.
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Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
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Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.
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Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid.
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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.
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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.
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Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.
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Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.
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Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
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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.
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We don't know one-millionth of one percent about anything.
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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.
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Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.
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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.
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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.
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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
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Knowledge is the only elegance.
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Knowledge comes by eyes always open and working hands; and there is no knowledge that is not power.
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Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.
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It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.
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The mark of a well educated person is not necessarily in knowing all the answers, but in knowing where to find them.
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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.
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Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.
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For lust of knowing what should not be known, we take the Golden Road to Samarkand.
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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!
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Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.
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It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches.
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Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.
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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.
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Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.
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No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.
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A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
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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.
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He knows so little and knows it so fluently.
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