KNOWLEDGE QUOTES VII

quotations about knowledge

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Knowledge gropes but meets not Wisdom's face.

SRI AUROBINDO

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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

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Few can tell what they know without also showing what they do not know.

IVAN PANIN

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We can't define anything precisely. If we attempt to, we get into that paralysis of thought that comes to philosophers… one saying to the other: "you don't know what you are talking about!". The second one says: "what do you mean by talking? What do you mean by you? What do you mean by know?"

RICHARD FEYNMAN

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There's a vast difference between having a carload of miscellaneous facts sloshing around loose in your head and getting all mixed up in transit, and carrying the same assortment properly boxed and crated for convenient handling and immediate delivery.

GEORGE HORACE LORIMER

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The less we know, the longer the explanation.

BRIAN HERBERT & KEVEN J. ANDERSON

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Men are more readily contented with no intellectual light than a little; and wherever they have been taught to acquire some knowledge in order to please others, they have most generally gone on to acquire more, to please themselves.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

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Knowledge is power. Power to do evil ... or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge itself is not evil.

VERONICA ROTH

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Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.

GEORGE WASHINGTON

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Knowledge alone doth not amount to Virtue; but certainly there is no Virtue without Knowledge.

BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE

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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

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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

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I don't know what's the matter with people: they don't learn by understanding, they learn by some other way -- by rote or something. Their knowledge is so fragile!

RICHARD FEYNMAN

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Although humans have existed on this planet for perhaps 2 million years, the rapid climb to modern civilization within the last 200 years was possible due to the fact that the growth of scientific knowledge is exponential; that is, its rate of expansion is proportional to how much is already known. The more we know, the faster we can know more. For example, we have amassed more knowledge since World War II than all the knowledge amassed in our 2-million-year evolution on this planet. In fact, the amount of knowledge that our scientists gain doubles approximately every 10 to 20 years.

MICHIO KAKU

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That is the beginning of knowledge--the discovery of something we do not understand.

FRANK HERBERT

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Folks don't like to have somebody around knowin' more than they do. It aggravates 'em.

HARPER LEE

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Our human knowledge is a candle burnt
On a dim altar to a sun-vast Truth.

SRI AUROBINDO

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If you cannot make knowledge your servant, make it your friend.

BALTASAR GRACIAN

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Humans crave knowledge, and when that craving ends, we are no longer human.

TIM LEBBON

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The misapplication of our knowledge is, in general, more injurious to our happiness and interest, than either the privations of ignorance, or the disqualifications of inexperience.

NORMAN MACDONALD

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