Knowledge Quotes And Sayings

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“The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.”
– Philip Dormer Stanhope

“The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.”
– Plato

“There is far greater peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.”
– Plato

“The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.”
– Ralph W. Sockman

“It is the mystery which lies all around the little we know which makes life so unspeakably interesting. I am thankful that that which I do not know, is so immeasurably greater than that which I know. I am thankful that I am only at the beginning of things.”
– Reuen Thomas

“I have approximate answers and possible beliefs in different degrees of certainty about different things, but I’m not absolutely sure of anything, and of many things I don’t know anything about, but I don’t have to know an answer. I don’t feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in the mysterious universe without having any purpose which is the way it really is as far as I can tell.”
– Richard Feynman

“I think it’s much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.”
– Richard Feynman

“Ignorance may be bliss, but it certainly is not freedom, except in the minds of those who prefer darkness to light and chains to liberty. The more true information we can acquire, the better for our enfranchisement.”
– Robert Hugh Benson

“The end of man is knowledge but there’s one thing he can’t know. He can’t know whether knowledge will save him or kill him. He will be killed, all right, but he can’t know whether he is killed because of the knowledge which he has got or because of the knowledge which he hasn’t got and which if he had it would save him.”
– Robert Penn Warren

“Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility.”
– Robin Morgan

“Children love to be alone, because alone is where they know themselves, and where they dream.”
– Roger Rosenblatt

“Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.”
– Samuel Johnson

“Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.”
– Samuel Johnson

“Be for ever a student. He and he alone is an old man who feels that he has learnt enough and has need for no more knowledge.”
– Sivananda

“True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing. And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all.”
– Socrates

“How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there’s no help in truth!”
– Sophocles

“I tried to think of my knowledge, but it was a squirrel’s heap of winter nuts. There was no strength in my knowledge any more and I felt small and naked as a new-hatched bird.”
– Stephen Vincent Benet

“Knowledge is power and enthusiasm pulls the switch.”
– Steve Droke

“Be curious always, for knowledge will not acquire you; you must acquire it.”
– Sudie Back

“The function of knowledge is to transcend earthly experience, not to wallow in it.”
– Susan Hubbard

“If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions.”
– Susanne K. Langer

“Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.”
– Sydney J. Harris

“We don’t know a millionth of one percent about anything.”
– Thomas A. Edison

“If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger? ”
– Thomas Henry Huxley

“Information is the mortar that both builds and destroys empires.”
– Tobsha Learner

“It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.”
– Unknown

“Knowledge is haunted by the ghost of past opinion.”
– Unknown

“Knowledge will soon become folly, when good sense ceases to be its guardian.”
– Wellins Calcott

“Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much, wisdom is humble that he knows no more.”
– William Cooper

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