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Knowledge

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

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

Denham, Sir John

Knowledge is only potential power.

Hill, Napoleon

To know oneself, one should assert oneself. Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

Camus, Albert

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

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

Socrates

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

Haskins, Caryl

Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

Chesterfield, Lord

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles with it.

Churchill, Winston

We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.

Wheeler, John Archibald

10.

To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.

Getty, J. Paul

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A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows.

Gurdjieff, George

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

Fischer, Martin H.

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

Stevens, Ray

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There is a period of life when we swallow knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

Bailey, Pearl

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

Bowen, Catherine Drinker

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Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction. [King Solomon]

Bible

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

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Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.

Lasch, Christopher

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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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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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If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

Zedong, Mao

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It is not good to know more unless we do more with what we already know.

Bergethon, R. K.

28.

Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known.

Whipple, Edwin P.

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The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.

Nerval, Gerard De

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We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world -- introspection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very considerably -- that the best way of knowing the inwardness of our neighbors is to know ourselves.

Lippmann, Walter

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They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

Terence

32.

The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds.

Kennedy, John F.

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

Shakespeare, William

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Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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

Starr, Lonny

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People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.

Lao-tzu

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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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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; Wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

Cowper, William

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The conqueror and king in each one of us is the knower of truth. Let the knower awaken in us and drive the horses of the mind, emotions, and physical body on the pathway which that king has chosen.

Arundale, George S.

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He who does not know one thing knows another

Proverb, Kenyan

41.

Man is not weak; knowledge is more than equivalent to force.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches.

Frederick The Great, (Frederick II)

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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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The end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love Him and imitate Him.

Milton, John

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Seldom if ever was knowledge given to keep, but always to impart. The grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.

Hall, Bishop

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

Swinnock

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Knowledge is power. Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -- broad, deep knowledge -- is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to feel the great heartthrobs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.

Keller, Helen

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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

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

Billings, Josh