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

Khalil Gibran

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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.

G. I. Gurdjieff

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3

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

Mark Twain

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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.

Knowledge
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Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.

Confucius

Knowledge
6

All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.

Juvenal

Knowledge
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And you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free. -- John 8:32

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As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value to you than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Knowledge
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Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge is meditation. But better still is surrender of attachment to results, because there follows immediate peace.

Knowledge
10

Between us, we cover all knowledge; he knows all that can be known and I know the rest.

Mark Twain

Knowledge
11

Boys, I may not know much, but I know chicken shit from chicken salad.

Lyndon B. Johnson

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12

Charles V. said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so valued learning, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge that, than his father Philip for giving him life.

Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay

Knowledge
13

Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older; they merely know more.

Saki

Knowledge
14

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.

Arthur Conan Doyle

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15

During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.

Albert Einstein

Knowledge
16

Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.

Thomas Huxley

Knowledge
17

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.

Raoul Vaneigem

Knowledge
18

God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country!

Benjamin Franklin

Knowledge
19

He mastered whatever was not worth the knowing.

James Russell Lowell

Knowledge
20

He who knows little quickly tells it.

Knowledge
21

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

John Stuart Mill

Knowledge
22

I am not young enough to know everything.

Oscar Wilde

Knowledge, Youth
23

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

Robert Benchley

Knowledge
24

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

Josh Billings

Knowledge
25

I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.

Michel de Montaigne

Knowledge
26

I think I could, if I only knew how to begin. For, you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately that Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible.

Lewis Carroll

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27

I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Knowledge
28

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

Winston Churchill

Knowledge
29

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.

Mao Zedong

Knowledge
30

It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.

Tom Stoppard

Knowledge
31

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

Epictetus

Knowledge
32

It is not so important to know everything as to know the exact value of everything, to appreciate what we learn, and to arrange what we know.

Hannah More

Knowledge
33

It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

William Ellery Channing

Knowledge
34

It is nothing for one to know something unless another knows you know it.

Knowledge
35

It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.

Tony Robbins

Knowledge
36

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

Frederick II of Prussia

Knowledge
37

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.

André Gide

Knowledge
38

Know-how will surpass guess-how.

Knowledge
39

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.

William James

Knowledge
40

Knowledge always demands increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but will afterwards always propagate itself.

Samuel Johnson

Knowledge
41

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Francis Bacon

Knowledge
42

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Plato

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43

Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to practical use.

Knowledge
44

Knowledge comes by eyes always open and working hands; and there is no knowledge that is not power.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Knowledge
45

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson

Knowledge
46

Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession -- a property entirely our own.

Samuel Smiles

Knowledge
47

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

Henry David Thoreau

Knowledge
48

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

Knowledge
49

Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.

Peter Drucker

Knowledge
50

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

E. E. Cummings

Knowledge
51

Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.

Thomas Fuller M.D.

Knowledge
52

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Francis Picabia

Knowledge
53

Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; love by love.

Thomas Szasz

Knowledge
54

Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Knowledge
55

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Knowledge
56

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

Josh Billings

Knowledge
57

Knowledge is more than equivalent to force.

Samuel Johnson

Knowledge
58

Knowledge is of two kinds: We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information about it.

Samuel Johnson

Knowledge
59

Knowledge is only potential power.

Napoleon Hill

Knowledge
60

Knowledge is power.

Francis Bacon, Ed Murphy

Knowledge
61

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.

Helen Keller

Knowledge
62

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

William Cowper

Knowledge
63

Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.

George Santayana

Knowledge
64

Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another.

Joseph Addison

Knowledge
65

Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.

Will Durant

Knowledge
66

Knowledge is the only elegance.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Knowledge
67

Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.

Ambrose Bierce

Knowledge
68

Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of the one who is wise.

William Penn

Knowledge
69

Knowledge like timber shouldn't be mush use till they are seasoned.

Knowledge
70

Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.

Earl of Chesterfield

Knowledge
71

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

Earl of Chesterfield

Knowledge
72

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

Albert Einstein

Knowledge
73

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

Carl Jung

Knowledge
74

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

Cicero

Knowledge
75

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Horace

Knowledge
76

Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, the mere materials with which wisdom builds, till smoothed and squared and fitted to its place, does but encumber whom it seems to enrich. Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much; wisdom is humble that he knows no more.

William Cowper

Knowledge
77

Knowledge, humbles a great person, astonishes the common, and puffs up the small.

Knowledge
78

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

Epictetus

Knowledge
79

Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them.

Earl of Chesterfield

Knowledge
80

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.

Thomas Hobbes

Knowledge
81

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

Samuel Johnson

Knowledge
82

Man knows more than he understands.

Alfred Adler

Knowledge
83

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

Knowledge
84

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

Knowledge
85

More knowledge may be gained of a man's real character by a short conversation with one of his servants than from a formal and studied narrative, begun with his pedigree and ended with his funeral.

Samuel Johnson

Knowledge
86

Never by reflection, but only by doing is self-knowledge possible to one.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Knowledge
87

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

Khalil Gibran

Knowledge
88

No man knows less than the man who knows it all

Knowledge
89

Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be; whereas Ignorance is a blind giant who, let him but wax unbound, would make it a sport to seize the pillars that hold up the long-wrought fabric of human good, and turn all the places of joy as dark as a buried Babylon.

George Eliot

Knowledge
90

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

Molière

Knowledge
91

Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

John Ruskin

Knowledge
92

One may understand the Cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.

G. K. Chesterton

Knowledge
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One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.

Socrates

Knowledge
94

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

Knowledge
95

Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.

Arthur Rimbaud

Knowledge
96

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Knowledge
97

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

William Shakespeare

Knowledge
98

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

Khalil Gibran

Knowledge
99

Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.

Benjamin Franklin

Knowledge
100

Sin, guilt, neurosis --they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

Henry Miller

Knowledge

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

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.

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

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.

Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.

All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.

And you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free. -- John 8:32

As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value to you than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge is meditation. But better still is surrender of attachment to results, because there follows immediate peace.

Between us, we cover all knowledge; he knows all that can be known and I know the rest.

Boys, I may not know much, but I know chicken shit from chicken salad.

Charles V. said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so valued learning, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge that, than his father Philip for giving him life.

Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older; they merely know more.

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.

During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.

Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.

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.

God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country!

He mastered whatever was not worth the knowing.

He who knows little quickly tells it.

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

I am not young enough to know everything.

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

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

I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.

I think I could, if I only knew how to begin. For, you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately that Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible.

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

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.

It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.

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

It is not so important to know everything as to know the exact value of everything, to appreciate what we learn, and to arrange what we know.

It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

It is nothing for one to know something unless another knows you know it.

It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.

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

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.

Know-how will surpass guess-how.

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.

Knowledge always demands increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but will afterwards always propagate itself.

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to practical use.

Knowledge comes by eyes always open and working hands; and there is no knowledge that is not power.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession -- a property entirely our own.

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

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

Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.

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

Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; love by love.

Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

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

Knowledge is more than equivalent to force.

Knowledge is of two kinds: We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information about it.

Knowledge is only potential power.

Knowledge is power.

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

Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.

Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another.

Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.

Knowledge is the only elegance.

Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.

Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of the one who is wise.

Knowledge like timber shouldn't be mush use till they are seasoned.

Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.

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

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

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

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

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, the mere materials with which wisdom builds, till smoothed and squared and fitted to its place, does but encumber whom it seems to enrich. Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much; wisdom is humble that he knows no more.

Knowledge, humbles a great person, astonishes the common, and puffs up the small.

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

Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them.

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.

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

Man knows more than he understands.