Knowledge Quotations
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| All men by nature desire knowledge. | |||
| - Aristotle | |||
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| If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them. | |||
| - Isaac Asimov | |||
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| Knowledge is haunted by the ghost of past opinion. | |||
| - Unknown Author | |||
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| Knowledge is power. | |||
| - Francis Bacon | |||
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| The greatest obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents and the ocean was not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge. | |||
| - Daniel J. Boorstin | |||
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| Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance. | |||
| - Confucius | |||
| When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge. | |||
| - Confucius | |||
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| To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge. | |||
| - Benjamin Disraeli | |||
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| I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there. | |||
| - Richard P. Feynman | |||
| 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 P. Feynman | |||
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| Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also. | |||
| - Carl G. Jung | |||
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| The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand. | |||
| - Frank Herbert | |||
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| Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned. | |||
| - Oliver Wendell, Sr. Holmes | |||
| To be master of any branch of knowledge, you must master those which lie next to it; and thus to know anything you must know all. | |||
| - Oliver Wendell, Sr. Holmes | |||
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| If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger? | |||
| - Thomas Henry Huxley | |||
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| In your thirst for knowledge, be sure not to drown in all the information. | |||
| - Anthony J. D'Angelo | |||
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| Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it. | |||
| - Samuel Johnson | |||
| 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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| All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing. | |||
| - Maurice Maeterlinck | |||
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| We are here and now. Further than that, all knowledge is moonshine. | |||
| - Henry Louis Mencken | |||
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| 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 | |||
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| There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge. | |||
| - Bertrand Russell | |||
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| What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child. | |||
| - George Bernard Shaw | |||
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| The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder. | |||
| - Ralph W. Sockman | |||
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| The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance. | |||
| - Socrates | |||
| There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance. | |||
| - Socrates | |||
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| Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial. | |||
| - Sophocles | |||
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| 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 | |||
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| Knowledge is a sacred cow, and my problem will be how we can milk her while keeping clear of her horns. | |||
| - Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi | |||
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| People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge. | |||
| - Lao Tzu | |||
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| The young man requires wisdom as well as knowledge. | |||
| - Thomas Watson | |||