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Quotations by Subject: Knowledge
(Related Subjects: Wisdom, Learning, Education)
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Science is organized knowledge.
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Herbert Spencer (1820 - 1903)
Knowledge can be communicated, but wisdom cannot. A man can find it, he can live it, he can be filled and sustained by it, but he cannot utter or teach it.
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Hermann Hesse (1877 - 1962)
This is the bitterest pain among men, to have much knowledge but no power.
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Herodotus (484 BC - 430 BC), The Histories of Herodotus
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
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Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992)
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.
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J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
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Jimi Hendrix (1942 - 1970)
Knowledge is the only instrument of production that is not subject to diminishing returns.
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John Clarke, Economist
We set sail on this new sea because there is knowledge to be gained.
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John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
There’s a place in the brain for knowing what cannot be remembered.
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John Green, An Abundance of Katherines, 2008
When a true genius appears in this world you may know him by this sign, that the dines are all in confederacy against him.
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Jonathan Swift (1667 - 1745)
In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others of which we could have no idea before, so that we cannot solve one doubt without creating several new ones.
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Joseph Priestley
Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.
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Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931), The Voice of the Master
The ending of sorrow is the beginning of wisdom. Knowledge is always within the shadow of ignorance. Meditation is freedom from thought and a movement in the ecstasy of truth. Meditation is explosion of intelligence.
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Krishnamurti
New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.
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Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007), Breakfast of Champions
People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.
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Lao-tzu (604 BC - 531 BC), The Way of Lao-tzu
Knowledge is a comfortable and necessary retreat and shelter for us in advanced age, and if we do not plant it while young, it will give us no shade when we grow old.
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Lord Chesterfield (1694 - 1773)
The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in the closet.
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Lord Chesterfield (1694 - 1773)
Truth is eternal, knowledge is changeable. It is disastrous to confuse them.
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Madeleine L'Engle (1918 - ), An Acceptable Time
If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it.
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Margaret Fuller (1810 - 1850)
Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.
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Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
I would rather have my ignorance than another man's knowledge, because I have got so much more of it.
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Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.
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Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), A Tramp Abroad, vol. 2, 1879
To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.
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Olin Miller
Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894), The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, 1858
Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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Plotinus (205 AD - 270 AD)
All our progress is an unfolding, like a vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.
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Richard Feynman (1918 - 1988), Letter to Armando Garcia J, December 11, 1985
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.
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Richard Feynman (1918 - 1988)
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