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Knowledge

Know-how will surpass guess-how.

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Best Quotes about Knowledge

The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

Charron, Pierre

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

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

Morrison, Jim

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.

If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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

Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Toffler, Alvin

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

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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Men can acquire knowledge, but not wisdom. Some of the greatest fools ever known were learned men.

Proverb, Spanish

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

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

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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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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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Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.

Buck, Pearl S.

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The knowledge of God is far from the love of Him.

Miller, Keith

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The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

Socrates

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When a person acts without knowledge of what he thinks, feels, needs or wants, he does not yet have the option of choosing to act differently.

Moustakas, Clark

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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.

Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan

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To know yourself you have only to set down a true statement of those that ever loved or hated you.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Van Horne, William

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To me the charm of an encyclopedia is that it knows and I needn't.

Brown, Francis Yeats

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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

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Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.

Samuel Johnson

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

Socrates

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In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal.

Whitney, W. R.

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

Billings, Josh

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You can't know too much, but you can say too much.

Coolidge, Calvin

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

Thoreau, Henry David

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Man is distinguished, not only by his reason; but also by this singular passion from other animals... which is a lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of knowledge, exceeds the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.

Hobbes, Thomas

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To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

Lao-Tzu

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

Billings, Josh

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I honestly believe it is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.

Billings, Josh

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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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An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

Michener, James A.

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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

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

Margaret Fuller

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You can live a lifetime and at the end, know more about other people than you know about yourself.

Markham, Beryl

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A superficial knowledge is not enough. It must be a knowledge capable of analyzing a situation quickly and making an immediate decision.

Robert, Cavett

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

Moliere

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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I know myself, but that is all.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

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True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

Lowell, James Russell

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A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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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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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

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I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

Mansfield, Katherine

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

Benjamin Disraeli