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Knowledge

Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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Best Quotes about Knowledge

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

Einstein, Albert

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

He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.

Mill, John Stuart

Every animal knows more than you do.

Proverb, Native American

Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.

Sophocles

Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

Ruskin, John

The trouble with most folks ain't so much their ignorance as knowing so many things that ain't so.

Billings, Josh

The hunger and thirst for knowledge, the keen delight in the chase, the good humored willingness to admit that the scent was false, the eager desire to get on with the work, the cheerful resolution to go back and begin again, the broad good sense, the unaffected modesty, the imperturbable temper, the gratitude for any little help that was given -- all these will remain in my memory though I cannot paint them for others.

Maitland, Frederic William

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

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Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.

Comte, Auguste

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Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Who knows most believes least.

Proverb

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The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself, but suddenly, provided he was honest, all the rest appears, and it is as rich as he was, and, as a final crowning, richer.

Canetti, Elias

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He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment.

Lao-Tzu

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True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Gracian, Baltasar

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It's a dangerous thing to think we know everything.

Kuehler, Jack

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Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

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Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another.

Addison, Joseph

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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.

Eckhart, Meister

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

Saying

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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

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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

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Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person

Mumford, Ethel Watts

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Oh how fine it is to know a thing or two!

Moliere

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

Fuller, Thomas

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A knowledge of men is the prime secret of business success.

Mills, Darius Ogden

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We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can -- namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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You have to know what's important and what's unimportant, for you.

Fink, David Harold

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

Denham, Sir John

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It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Enrico Fermi

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None of us is as smart as all of us.

Eric Schmidt

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It is nothing for one to know something unless another knows you know it.

Proverb, Persian

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He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Glasgow, Ellen

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There are things known, and there are things unknown. And in between are the doors.

Morrison, Jim

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I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.

Benchley, Robert

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It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.

Stoppard, Tom

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We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge.

Roger, Rutherford D.

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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.

Diderot, Denis

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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.

Carter, Angela

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No man knows less than the man who knows it all

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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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I know myself as a human entity; the scene, so to speak, or thoughts are affection; and am sensible of certain doubleness by which I can stand as remote from myself as from another. However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a part of me, which, as it were, is no part of me, but spectator, sharing no experience, but taking note of it, and that is no more I than it is you.

Thoreau, Henry David

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A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.

Eckhart, Meister

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To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Haskins, Caryl

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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