KNOWLEDGE

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1. What one knows is, in youth, of little moment; they know enough who know how to learn.—HENRY ADAMS, The Education of Henry Adams
   

2. Man knows much more than he understands.—ALFRED ADLER, Social Interest
   

3. He who knows not, and knows not that he knows not, is a fool. Shun him.
   He who knows not, and knows that he knows not, is simple. Teach him.
   He who knows, and knows not that he knows, is asleep. Waken him.
   He who knows, and knows that he knows, is wise. Follow him.—Arabic Apothegm
   

4. Knowledge is power.—BACON
   

5. He multiplieth words without knowledge.—Bible, Job 35:16
   

6. He that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.—Bible, Ecclesiastes 1:18
   

7. Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.—Bible, Daniel 12:4
   

8. It is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.—JOSH BILLINGS, Proverb
   

9. Knowledge by suffering entereth,
   And life is perfected by death.—ELIZABETH B. BROWNING, A Vision of Poets
   

10. An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less.—NICHOLAS MURRAY BUTLER
    

11. He knew what's what, and that's as high
    As metaphysic wit can fly.—SAMUEL BUTLER, Hudibras
    

12. It is far safer to know too little than too much. People will condemn the one, though they will resent being called upon to exert themselves to follow the other.—SAMUEL BUTLER, The Way of All Flesh
    

13. It is surprising, approaching the final enlightenment, how little one really has to know or feel sure about.—ADMIRAL BYRD, Alone
    

14. I know what's what.—CERVANTES, Don Quixote
    

15. Knowledge is proud that he has learn'd so much;
    Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.—COWPER, The Task
    

16. Since knowledge is but sorrow's spy, It is not safe to know.—SIR WILLIAM D'AVENANT, The Just Italian

17. He [ Socrates] said that there was one only good, namely, knowledge; and one only evil, namely, ignorance.—DIOGENES LAERTIUS, Socrates
    

18. All knowledge of physical objects is inferential . .. Familiar objects which we handle are just as much inferential as a remote star inferred from an image on a photographic plate.—SIR ARTHUR EDDINGTON
    

19. Revelation is always measured by capacity.—MICHAEL FAIRLESS, The Roadmender
    

20. If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it.—MARGARET FULLER
    

21. Excepting for knowledge nothing has any meaning, and to have no meaning is to be non-existent.—LORD HALDANE
    

22. Nothing exists because it is known, but things are known because they exist.—L. T. HOBHOUSE
    

23. Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.—O. W. HOLMES, The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table
    

24. If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?—THOMAS H. HUXLEY, On Elemental Instruction in Physiology
    

25. Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.—SAMUEL JOHNSON, Boswell: Life
    

26. Knowledge is more than equivalent to force.—SAMUEL JOHNSON, Rasselas
    

27. Diffused knowledge immortalizes itself.—SIR JAMES MACKINTOSH, Vindiciae Gallicae
    

28. No one knows what is good who knows not what is evil; and no one knows what is true who knows not what is false.—EDGAR LEE MASTERS, Spoon River Anthology
    

29. In many ways the saying "Know thyself" is not well said. It were more practical to say "Know other people."—MENANDER, Thrasyleon
    

30. No one can draw more out of things, books included, than he already knows. A man has no ears for that to which experience has given him no access.—NIETZSCHE, Ecce Homo
    

31. Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.—PLATO, The Republic
    

32. He that imagines he hath knowledge enough hath none.—Proverb
    

33. He that knows least commonly presumes most.—Proverb
    

34. Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.—Proverb
    

35. One part of knowledge consists in being ignorant of such things as are not worthy to be known.—Proverb
    

36. He that knows little soon repeats it.—Proverb
    

37. He who knows nothing is confident in everything.—Proverb
    

38. All I know is just what I read in the papers.—WILL ROGERS

39. It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing.—SENECA
    

40. When the wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw.—SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
    

41. Knows not which is which.—SHAKESPEARE, A Midsummer-Night's Dream
    

42. Knowledge, in truth, is the great sun in the firmament. Life and power are scattered with all its beams.—DANIEL WEBSTER
    

43. To me the charm of an encyclopedia is that it knows—and I
    needn't.—FRANCIS YEATS-BROWN