Knowledge Quotes And Sayings

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“In the case of various kinds of knowledge, we find that what in former days occupied the energies of men of mature mental ability sinks to the level of information, exercises, and even pastimes for children; and in this educational progress we can see the history of the world’s culture delineated in faint outline.”
– Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“What you know is a club for yourself, and what you don’t know is a meat-ax for the other fellow.”
– George Horace Lorimer

“I ain’t one of those who believe that a half knowledge of a subject is useless, but it has been my experience that when a fellow has that half knowledge he finds it’s the other half which would really come in handy.”
– George Horace Lorimer

“Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.”
– George Washington

“Knowledge increases in proportion to its use – that is, the more we teach the more we learn.”
– H. P. Blavatsky

“We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we need to know ourselves better; that we require knowledge, not just of self and others, but of the way things are.”
– Harold Bloom

“In the world we live in, what we know and what we don’t know are like Siamese twins, inseparable, existing in a state of confusion.”
– Haruki Murakami

“Beauty can’t amuse you, but brainwork — reading, writing, thinking — can.”
– Helen Gurley Brown

“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 heart-throbs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one just indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.”
– Helen Keller

“You must know all there is to know in your particular field and keep on the alert for new knowledge. The least difference in knowledge between you and another man may spell his success and your failure.”
– Henry Ford

“We ought to be ten times as hungry for knowledge as for food for the body.”
– Henry Ward Beecher

“Knowledge is a mimic creation.”
– Horace Mann

“As each generation comes into the world devoid of knowledge, its first duty is to obtain possession of the stores already amassed. It must overtake its predecessors before it can pass by them.”
– Horace Mann

“When the panting and thirsting soul first drinks the delicious waters of truth, when the moral and intellectual tastes and desires first seize the fragrant fruits that flourish in the garden of knowledge, then does the child catch a glimpse and foretaste of heaven.”
– Horace Mann

“Knowledge is but an instrument, which the profligate and the flagitious may use as well as the brave and the just.”
– Horace Mann

“If there is anything for which I would go back to childhood, and live this weary life over again, it is for the burning, exalting, transporting thrill and ecstasy with which the young faculties hold their earliest communion with knowledge.”
– Horace Mann

“Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.”
– Immanuel Kant

“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
– Isaac Asimov

“Knowledge is indivisible. When people grow wise in one direction, they are sure to make it easier for themselves to grow wise in other directions as well. On the other hand, when they split up knowledge, concentrate on their own field, and scorn and ignore other fields, they grow less wise — even in their own field.”
– Isaac Asimov

“Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.”
– Isaac Singer

“Few can tell what they know without also showing what they do not know.”
– Ivan Panin

“What we know is to what we do not know, as a grain of sand is to the beach.”
– Ivan Panin

“The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side. ”
– James Baldwin

“Knowledge is a collective enterprise. Without it understanding is impossible. Ignorance is too often a murderous vulnerability. ”
– Jane Rule

“Omniscience … is an excellent quality in God, but suspect in everyone else.”
– Jennifer Lee Carrell

“Knowledge comes by eyes always open and working hard, and there is no knowledge that is not power.”
– Jeremy Taylor

“There is, perhaps, one universal truth about all forms of human cognition: the ability to deal with knowledge is hugely exceeded by the potential knowledge contained in man’s environment. To cope with this diversity, man’s perception, his memory, and his thought processes early become governed by strategies for protecting his limited capacities from the confusion of overloading. We tend to perceive things schematically, for example, rather than in detail, or we represent a class of diverse things by some sort of averaged “typical instance.”
– Jerome S. Bruner

“What a man does not understand, he does not possess.”
– Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“The history of knowledge is a great fugue in which the voices of the nations one after the other emerge.”
– Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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