Knowledge is power.
?Francis Bacon
Real knowledge is to know the
extent of one's ignorance.
?Confucius
There is much pleasure ot be
gained from useless knowledge.
?Bertrand Russell
If my mind can conceive it,
and my heart can believe it,
I know I can achieve it.
?Rev. Jesse Jackson
A President's hardest task is
not to do what is right,
but to know what is right.
?Lyndon Baines Johnson
I am not young enough to know everything.
?Sir J.M. Barrie
I do not believe...I know.
?Carl Jung
I am an idealist. I don't know where
I'm going but I'm on the way.
?Carl Sandburg
In Examinations those who do now
wish to know ask questions
of those who cannot tell.
?Sir Walter Raleigh
I don't know very much, but what I do
know, I know better than anybody else
and I don't want to argue about it... A mind
is not a bed to be made and re-made.
?James Agate
All I know is what I read in the papers.
?Will Rogers
Women...are wiser than men because
they know less and understand more.
?James Stephens
You know more than you think you do.
?Benjamin Spock
A king that would not feel his crown too
heavy for him, must wear it every day;
but if he think it too light, he
knoweth not of what metal it is made.
?Bacon
A man is never astonished that he doesn't
know what another does, but he
is surprised at the gross ignorance of
the other in not knowing what he does.
?Haliburton
A man who knows the world will not only make
the most of everything he does know, but
of many things that he does not know; and will
gain more credit by his adroit mode of hiding
his ignorance than the pendant by his awkward
attempt to exhibit his erudition.
?Colton
Blessed is he who has reached the point of no
return and knows it, for he shall enjoy living.
?W. C. Bennett
Forecasters tend to learn less and less
about more and more, until in the end
they know nothing about everything.
?Edgar R. Fiedler
From the time we first begin to know,
We live and learn, but not the wiser grow.
?Pomfret
God will not suffer man to have the knowledge
of things to come; for if he had prescience of his
prosperity he would be careless; and understanding
of his adversity he would be senseless.
?St. Augustine
Half of being smart is knowing what you're dumb at.
?Solomon Short
Hypotheses multiply so as to fill the gaps in factual
knowledge concerning biological phenomena.
?James D. Regan
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
?Socrates
If you have to ask, you're not entitled to know.
?Charles C. Abbott
If you're confident after you've just finished an exam,
it's because you don't know enough to know better.
?Jay Weisman
In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal
of defeat: but in the evolution of real
knowledge, it marks the first
step in progress toward victory.
?Alfred North Whitehead
It is far easier to know men than to know man.
?La Rochefoucauld
It is impossible to make people understand their
ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it;
and, therefore, he that can perceive it hath it not.
?Jeremy Taylor
Know then thyself; presume not God to
scan; The proper study of mankind is man.
?Alexander Pope
The ancient sage who concocted the maxim, Know
Thyself might have added, Don't Tell Anyone!
?H. F. Henrichs
The art of being wise is the
art of knowing what to overlook.
?William James
The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches,
increases ever with the acquisition of it.
?Sterne
The first step to knowledge is
to know that we are ignorant.
?Cecil
The greatest of fools is he who imposes
on himself, and in greatest concern
thinks certainly he knows that which
he has least studied, and of
which he is profoundly ignorant.
?Shaftesbury
The last thing one knows is what to put first.
?Pascal
The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.
?Thales
The profoundly wise do not declaim against superficial
knowledge in others, as much as the profoundly ignorant.
?Colton
There is much pleasure to be
gained in useless knowledge.
?Bertrand Russell
There are things on heaven and earth,
Horatio, Man was not meant to know.
?Hamlet
The shortest and surest way of arriving at
real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we
have been taught, to remount first principles,
and to take nobody's word about them.
?Bolingbroke
The next best thing to knowing something
is knowing where to find it.
?Samuel Johnson
Through zeal, knowledge is gotten,
through lack of zeal, knowledge is
lost; let a man who knows the double
path of gain and loss thus place
himself that knowledge may grow.
?Buddha
We can be Knowledgeable with other
men's knowledge, but we cannot be
wise with other men's wisdom.
?Michel de Montaigne
What we want is to see the child in
pursuit of knowledge, and not
knowledge in pursuit of the child.
?George Bernard Shaw
Wisdom and knowledge decrease
in inverse proportion to age.
?William J. Lynott
Wisdom is considered a sign of weakness
by the powerful because a wise man
can lead without power but only a
powerful man can lead without wisdom.
?Mark B. Cohen
Wisdom is meaningless until our own
experience has given it meaning ... and there
is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
?Bergen Evans
An expert is one who knows more
and more about less and less.
?Nicholas Murray Butler
Real knowledge is to know the
extent of one's ignorance.
?Confucius
Do you not know, my son, with what little
understanding the world is ruled?
?Pope Julius III
He who knows only his own side
of the case knows little of that.
?John Stuart Mill
People who know little are usually great
talkers, while men who know much say little.
?Jean Jacques Rousseau
It is better, of course, to know
useless things than to know nothing.
?Seneca
It is better to know some of the
questions than all of the answers.
?James Thurber
The only things one can admire at length are
those one admires without knowing why.
?Jean Rostand
To be absolutely certain about something,
one must know everything or nothing about it.
?Olin Miller
The secret of contentment is knowing how to
enjoy what you have, and to be able to lose
all desire for things beyond your reach.
?Lin Yutang
The known is finite, the unknown infinite;
intellectually we stand on an islet in the
midst of in illimitable ocean of inexplicability.
Our business in every generation is
to reclaim a little more land.
?T. H. Huxley
He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but
he who does not ask remains a fool forever.
?Chinese Proverb
If a man's faith is unstable and his
peace of mind troubled, his
knowledge will not be perfect..
?Dhammapada
A man has only so much knowledge as he puts to work.
?St. Francis of Assisi
Knowledge without religion will no
more sanctify than painted fire will
burn, or the sight of water cleanse.
?John A. O'Brien
We live on an island surrounded by a
sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge
grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.
?John A. Wheeler
Knowledge is the wing whereby we fly to Heaven.
?William Shakespeare
He that has more knowledge than judgement,
is made for another man's use more than his own.
?William Penn
Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.
?Kahlil Gibran
Information is not knowledge.
?Albert Einstein
Anyone who stops learning is old,
whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone
who keeps learning stays young.
The greatest thing in life is
to keep your mind young.
?Henry Ford
