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- He who is not aware of his ignorance will only be misled by his knowledge.
- Richard Whatley
- Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), quoted in Boswell's Life of 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 (1709 - 1784), quoted in Boswell's Life of Johnson
- Rules are just helpful guidelines for stupid people who can't make up their own minds.
- Seth Hoffman, House M.D., 2010
- I have taken all knowledge to be my province.
- Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626)
- Knowledge is power.
- Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626), Religious Meditations, Of Heresies, 1597
- Knowledge is power.
(Ipsa Scientia Potestas Est) - Sir Francis Bacon (1561 - 1626), Meditationes Sacræ. De Hæresibus. (1597)
- The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
- Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC)
- There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.
- Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC), from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers
- Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.
- Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC), Trachiniae
- The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.
- Stephen Hawking (1942 - )
- The great end of life is not knowledge, but action.
- Thomas Fuller (1608 - 1661)
- If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger.
- Thomas H. Huxley (1825 - 1895)
- A little learning is not a dangerous thing to one who does not mistake it for a great deal.
- William Allen White
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