• Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.

  

  Benjamin Franklin

  PoliticianAmerican1706 · 18th century

  3.1 · 17 votes · 46 reads

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• Research is creating new knowledge.

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  Neil Armstrong

  AstronautAmerican1930 · 20th century

  3.7 · 56 votes · 16 reads

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• Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.

  

  Hippocrates

  ScientistGreek-460 · 5th century BC

  3.0 · 33 votes · 37 reads

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• Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.

  

  Stephen Hawking

  PhysicistEnglish1942 · 20th century

  3.8 · 37 votes · 57 reads

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• Sin, guilt, neurosis -they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

  

  Henry Miller

  AuthorAmerican1891 · 19th century

  3.0 · 13 votes · 85 reads

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• Some students drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.

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  Anonymous

  4.6 · 53 votes · 131 reads

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• Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.

  

  Isaac Asimov

  ScientistAmerican1920 · 20th century

  3.3 · 29 votes · 89 reads

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• The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts- the less you know the hotter you get.

  

  Bertrand Russell

  PhilosopherBritish1872 · 19th century

  4.5 · 24 votes · 168 reads

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• The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

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  Laurence Sterne

  WriterBritish1713 · 18th century

  4.3 · 40 votes · 63 reads

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• The end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love Him and imitate Him.

  

  John Milton

  PoetEnglish1608 · 17th century

  4.6 · 56 votes · 191 reads

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• The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.

  

  Confucius

  PhilosopherChinese-551 · 6th century BC

  4.1 · 32 votes · 63 reads

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• The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds.

  

  John F. Kennedy

  PoliticianAmerican1917 · 20th century

  5.0 · 35 votes · 141 reads

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• The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  4.2 · 14 votes · 199 reads

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• The long unmeasured pulse of time moves everything. There is nothing hidden that it cannot bring to light, nothing once known that may not become unknown.

  

  Socrates

  PhilosopherGreek-470 · 5th century BC

  4.8 · 22 votes · 199 reads

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• The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  3.1 · 22 votes · 69 reads

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• The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

  

  Isaac Asimov

  ScientistAmerican1920 · 20th century

  4.0 · 27 votes · 56 reads

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• The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.

  

  Marquis de Vauvenargues

  WriterFrench1715 · 18th century

  4.5 · 33 votes · 9 reads

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• The trouble with most folks ain't so much their ignorance as knowing so many things that ain't so.

  

  Josh Billings

  ComedianAmerican1815 · 19th century

  3.1 · 6 votes · 3 reads

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• The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain't so.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  4.2 · 14 votes · 18 reads

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• The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.

  

  René Descartes

  MathematicianFrench1596 · 16th century

  3.0 · 47 votes · 135 reads

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• There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the later ignorance.

  

  Hippocrates

  ScientistGreek-460 · 5th century BC

  3.8 · 7 votes · 58 reads

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• There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating -people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  4.9 · 36 votes · 106 reads

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• There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

  

  Bertrand Russell

  PhilosopherBritish1872 · 19th century

  4.7 · 30 votes · 158 reads

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• There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge - that is everywhere.

  

  Hermann Hesse

  PoetGerman1877 · 19th century

  4.2 · 39 votes · 191 reads

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• They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

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  Tennessee Williams

  PlaywrightAmerican1911 · 20th century

  4.9 · 33 votes · 175 reads

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• To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.

  

  Henry A. Kissinger

  PoliticianGerman1923 · 20th century

  4.5 · 6 votes · 82 reads

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• To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.

  

  Charles Caleb Colton

  AuthorBritish1780 · 18th century

  4.8 · 48 votes · 58 reads

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• To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

  

  Confucius

  PhilosopherChinese-551 · 6th century BC

  4.0 · 49 votes · 192 reads

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• To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.

  

  Henry David Thoreau

  PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century

  5.0 · 36 votes · 137 reads

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• Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.

  

  Peter Drucker

  BusinessmanAmerican1909 · 20th century

  3.6 · 59 votes · 133 reads

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• True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

  

  Baltasar Gracián

  WriterSpanish1601 · 17th century

  3.6 · 58 votes · 132 reads

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• True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

  

  James Russell Lowell

  PoetAmerican1819 · 19th century

  3.8 · 41 votes · 183 reads

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• We did it Disneyland, in the knowledge that most of the people I talked to thought it would be a financial disaster - closed and forgotten within the first year.

  

  Walt Disney

  CartoonistAmerican1901 · 20th century

  3.9 · 14 votes · 72 reads

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• We don't know one-millionth of one percent about anything.

  

  Theodore Roosevelt

  PoliticianAmerican1858 · 19th century

  3.3 · 35 votes · 25 reads

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• We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  3.8 · 35 votes · 108 reads

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• We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.

  

  Charles Caleb Colton

  AuthorBritish1780 · 18th century

  4.9 · 13 votes · 109 reads

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• What is not fully understood is not possessed.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  3.6 · 37 votes · 187 reads

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• When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.

  

  Isaac Asimov

  ScientistAmerican1920 · 20th century

  4.9 · 38 votes · 84 reads

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• When you cease to strive to understand, then you will know without understanding.

  

  Chinese proverb

  Chinese

  4.9 · 51 votes · 33 reads

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• When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it-this is knowledge.

  

  Confucius

  PhilosopherChinese-551 · 6th century BC

  3.8 · 57 votes · 1 reads

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• Who knows most believes least.

  

  Proverb

  Anonymous

  4.1 · 52 votes · 65 reads

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• Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

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  Anonymous

  4.2 · 48 votes · 124 reads

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