Knowledge Quotes And Sayings

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“A man who knows the world will not only make the most of everything he does know, but of many things he does not know, and will gain more credit by his adroit mode of hiding his ignorance than the pedant by his awkward attempt to exhibit his erudition.”
– Charles Caleb Colton

“In the pursuit of knowledge, follow it wherever it is to be found; like fern, it is the produce of all climates, and like coin, its circulation is not restricted to any particular class.”
– Charles Caleb Colton

“Religion has treated knowledge sometimes as an enemy, sometimes as a hostage; often as a captive, and more often as a child: but knowledge has become of age; and religion must either renounce her acquaintance, or introduce her as a companion and respect her as a friend.”
– Charles Caleb Colton

“The highest knowledge can be nothing more than the shortest and clearest road to truth; all the rest is pretension, not performance, mere verbiage and grandiloquence, from which we can learn nothing.”
– Charles Caleb Colton

“It has been observed that a dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant will see farther than the giant himself; and the moderns, standing as they do on the vantage ground of former discoveries and uniting all the fruits of the experience of their forefathers, with their own actual observation, may be admitted to enjoy a more enlarged and comprehensive view of things than the ancients themselves.”
– Charles Caleb Colton

“We owe almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed, but to those who have differed.”
– Charles Caleb Colton

“Man is an ignoramus athirst for knowledge.”
– Charles Wagner

“To be fond of learning is to be at the gate of knowledge.”
– Chinese Proverb

“Drugs or overeating or alcohol or sex, it was all just another way to find peace. To escape what we know. Our education. Our bite of the apple.”
– Chuck Palahniuk

“Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.”
– Confucius

“The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.”
– Confucius

“You have to live to really know things.”
– Dan Simmons

“I have observed that the world has suffered far less from ignorance than from pretensions to knowledge. It is not skeptics or explorers but fanatics and ideologues who menace decency and progress. No agnostic ever burned anyone at the stake or tortured a pagan, a heretic, or an unbeliever.”
– Daniel J. Boorstin

“Knowledge is not simply another commodity. On the contrary. Knowledge is never used up. It increases by diffusion and grows by dispersion.”
– Daniel J. Boorstin

“Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.”
– Daniel J. Boorstin

“Knowledge is the only fountain both of love and the principles of human liberty.”
– Daniel Webster

“The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained.”
– David Bohm

“The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.”
– Dr. Adolf Berle

“Dollars and guns are no substitutes for brains and will power.”
– Dwight D. Eisenhower

“There is but a slight difference between the man who may be said to know nothing and him who thinks he knows everything.”
– E. H. Chapin

“The knowledge of useful things is a purse seldom lost.”
– Edward Counsel

“The Royal Road to Knowledge, all may win, who seek the source of Life in everything.”
– Edwin Leibfreed

“The recipe for perpetual ignorance is a very simple and effective one: be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge. ”
– Elbert Hubbard

“It does not make much difference what a person studies–all knowledge is related, and the man who studies anything, if he keeps at it, will be learned.”
– Elbert Hubbard

“The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.”
– Elizabeth Hardwick

“Knowledge shuts a man’s mouth.”
– Erwin Sylvanus

“Knowledge itself is power.”
– Francis Bacon

“The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.”
– Frank Herbert

“Learning is about more than simply acquiring new knowledge and insights; it is also crucial to unlearn old knowledge that has outlive its relevance. Thus, forgetting is probably at least as important as learning.”
– Gary Ryan Blair

“Knowledge has a beginning but no end.”
– Geeta S. Iyengar

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