KNOWLEDGE QUOTES VI

quotations about knowledge

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Those who have knowledge are more confident than those who have no knowledge, and they are more confident after they have learned than before.

PLATO

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It is as though each of us investigated and made his own only a tiny circle of facts. Knowledge outside the day's work is regarded by most men as gewgaw. Still we are constantly in reaction against our ignorance. We rouse ourselves at intervals and speculate.

ROBERT WILSON LYND

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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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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

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Man is an ignoramus athirst for knowledge.

CHARLES WAGNER

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Oh Christ, the exhaustion of not knowing anything. It's so tiring and hard on the nerves. It really takes it out of you, not knowing anything. You're given comedy and miss all the jokes. Every hour you get weaker. Sometimes, as I sit alone in my flat in London and stare at the window, I think how dismal it is, how heavy, to watch the rain and not know why it falls.

MARTIN AMIS

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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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The greatest piece of folly is that every man thinks himself compelled to hand down what people think they have known.

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

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When intelligent and sensible people despise knowledge in their old age, it is only because they have asked too much of it and of themselves.

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

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Yet with great toil all that I can attain
By long experience, and in learned schools,
Is for to know my knowledge is but vain,
And those that think them wise, are greatest fools.

SIR WILLIAM ALEXANDER

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As I came not into life with any knowledge of it, and as my likings are for what is old, I busy myself in seeking knowledge there.

CONFUCIUS

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Information is the mortar that both builds and destroys empires.

TOBSHA LEARNER

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If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.

MARGARET FULLER

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Knowledge gropes but meets not Wisdom's face.

SRI AUROBINDO

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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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Knowledge often cuts the root that supports it.

EDWARD COUNSEL

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I do not approve the maxim which desires a man to know a little of everything. Superficial knowledge, knowledge without principles, is almost always useless and sometimes harmful knowledge.

LUC DE CLAPIERS

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All our knowledge is the offspring of our perceptions.

LEONARDO DA VINCI

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

FRANK HERBERT

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The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn
When teachers themselves are taught to learn.

BERTOLT BRECHT

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