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Knowledge

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

Enrico Fermi

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

Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all.

Baruch, Bernard M.

It is part of our pedagogy to teach the operations of thinking, feeling, and willing so that they may be made conscious. For if we do not know the difference between an emotion and a thought, we will know very little. We need to understand the components (of emotions) at work... in order to free their hold.

Richards, Mary Caroline

To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

Benjamin Disraeli

Some people drink deeply from the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

Bright, Grant M.

His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.

J. K. Rowling

It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

Epictetus

Knowledge is the best eraser in the world for disharmony, distrust, despair, and the endless physical deficiencies of man.

Battista, Orlando A.

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Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.

Billings, Josh

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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

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Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

Fischer, Martin H.

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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.

Gide, Andre

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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing -- that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

Richard Feynman

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Without knowledge, life is not more than the shadow of death.

Moliere

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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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It is disgraceful to live as a stranger in one's country, and be an alien in any matter that affects our welfare.

Manutius

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Try to put well in practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about.

Rembrandt (Harmenszoon van Rijn)

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Far better is it to know everything of a little than a little of everything.

Pickering

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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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We have no organ at all for knowledge, for truth: we know (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be useful in the interest of the human herd, the species: and even what is here called usefulness is in the end only a belief, something imagined and perhaps precisely that most fatal piece of stupidity by which we shall one day perish.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.

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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.

Adams, Franklin P.

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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

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There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

Socrates

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Self knowers always dwell in El Dorado; they drink from the fountain of youth, and at all times owners of all they wish to enjoy.

Bristol, Claude M.

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To know yourself, see how others do, to know others look into your own heart.

Smiles, Sydney

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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

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

Swinnock

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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.

Abbott, John

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There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.

Franklin, Benjamin

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We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

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

Einstein, Albert

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Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Picabia, Francis

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Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch.

Ball, Ivern

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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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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Bacon, Francis

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

Kuehler, Jack

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

Moliere

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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

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Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

Epictetus

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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.

Everett, Douglas

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

Benchley, Robert

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An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.

Kempis, Thomas

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We have an opportunity for everyone in the world to have access to all the world's information. This has never before been possible. Why is ubiquitous information so profound? It's a tremendous equalizer. Information is power.

Eric Schmidt

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

Mill, John Stuart

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Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not.

Vaneigem, Raoul