- "They know enough who know how to learn. "
-- Henry Adams - "Knowledge is power--if you know it about the right people. "
-- Anonymous - "All men by nature desire to know. "
-- Aristotle - "The proof that you know something is that you are able to teach it."
-- Aristotle - "If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them."
-- Isaac Asimov - "Knowledge is Power. "
-- Francis Bacon - "Knowledge and human power are synonyms. "
-- Francis Bacon - "I am not young enough to know everything. "
-- James Matthew Barrie - "He that knew all that learning ever writ, Knew only this--that he knew nothing yet."
-- Aphra Behn - "I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well. "
-- Peter Benchley - "I am not wise. Not knowing, and learning to be comfortable with not knowing, is a great discovery. "
-- Sue Bender - "Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify. "
-- Ambrose Bierce - "The trouble with people is not that they don't know but that they know so much that ain't so. "
-- Josh Billings - "Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves. "
-- Josh Billings - "You never know what is enough until you know what is more than enough. "
-- William Blake - "Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to un-know. "
-- Sir Richard Francis Burton - "The public do not know enough to be experts, yet know enough to decide between them. "
-- Samuel Butler - "Much knowledge is a curse. "
-- Chang-Tzu - "Pocket all your knowledge with your watch and never pull it out in company unless desired. "
-- Lord Chesterfield - "Grace is given of god, but knowledge is bought in the market. "
-- Arthur Hugh Clough - "We owe almost all of our knowledge not to those who have agreed, but to those who have differed. "
-- Charles Caleb Colton - "The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance. "
-- Confucius - "If knowledge is power, clandestine knowledge is power squared; it can be withheld, exchanged, and leveraged. "
-- Letty CottinGold Swirls - "I do not pretend to know what many ignoarant men are sure of. "
-- Clarence Darrow - "Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul. "
-- Will Durant - "Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance. "
-- Will Durant - "Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down. "
-- George Eliot - "Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know. "
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson - "Nobody knows enough, but many know too much. "
-- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach - "The specialist is a man who fears the other subjects. "
-- Martin H. Fisher - "Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young. "
-- Henry Ford - "Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge. "
-- Kahlil Gibran - "True knowledge lies in knowing how to live. "
-- Baltasar GraciánStarry Night, c.1889 - "All that men really understand is confined to a very small compass; to their daily affairs and existence; to what they have an opportunity to know; and motives to study or practise. The rest is affectation and imposture. "
-- William Hazlitt - "Mistakes are their own instructors. "
-- Horace - "If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger? "
-- Thomas Huxley - "Ecery great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority. "
-- Thomas Huxley - "Sit down before a fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconcieved notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss nature leads, or you shall learn nothing. "
-- Thomas Huxley - "Knowledge also imposes responsibility. "
-- W.M.L. Jay - "Once you have discovered what is happening, you can't pretend not to know, you can't abdicate responsibility. "
-- P.D. James - "There was never an age in which useless knowledge was more important than our own. "
-- Cyril Joad - "Knowledge is of two kinds; we know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it. "
-- Samuel Johnson - "man is not weak--knowledge is more than equivalent to force. The master of mechanics laughs at strength. "
-- Samuel Johnson - "All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price. "
-- JuvenalEnlightenment - "I keep six honest serving-men [They taught me all I knew]; Their names are What and Why and When And How and Where and Who "
-- Rudyard Kipling - "Knowledge is much like dust--it sticks to one, one knows not how. "
-- L.E. Landon - "How long, I wonder, will ignorance spell purity and knowledge shame? "
-- Rosamond Lehmann - "Universities are full of knowledge; the freshmen bring a litle in and the seniors take none away, and knowledge accumulates. "
-- Lawrence Lowell - "A popular Government, without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy; or, perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance: And a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives. "
-- James Madison - "In much knowledge there is also much grief. "
-- Queen Marie of Romania - "I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in this world. "
-- Margaret Mead - "The chief knowledge that a man gets from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading. "
-- H.L. Mencken - "We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire; the more we see, the more we are capable of seeing. "
-- Maria MitchellWorld Political Map, Executive Style - "The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more."
-- Alexander Pope - "Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessaarily be infinite. "
-- Karl Popper - "We're drowning in information and starving for knowledge. "
-- Rutherford D. Rogers - "To appear to be on the inside and know more than others about what is going on is a great temptation for most people. It is a rare person who is willing to seem to know less than he does. "
-- Eleanor Roosevelt - "In all affairs, love, religion, politics, or business, it's a healthy idea, now and then, to hang a question mark on things you have long taken for granted. "
-- Bertrand Russel - "There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge. "
-- Bertrand Russel - "As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious. "
-- Albert Schweitzer - "I am never afraid of what I know. "
-- Anna Sewell - "There are two kinds of statistics: the kind you look up and the kind you make up. "
-- Rex Stout - "Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. "
-- Alfred, Lord Tennyson - "To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge. "
-- Henry David Thoreau - "A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn by no other way. "
-- Mark Twain - "A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows. "
-- Mark Twain - "We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance. "
-- John A. Wheeler - "I am not young enough to know everything. "
-- Oscar Wilde
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