Knowledge Quotes

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Knowledge is only potential power. — Napoleon Hill
More knowledge may be gained of a man's real character by a short conversation with one of his servants than from a formal and studied… — Samuel Johnson
Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure. — John Ruskin
Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession -a property entirely our own. — Samuel Smiles
We have no organ at all for knowledge, for truth: we know (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be useful in the… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to… — Raoul Vaneigem
What is not fully understood is not possessed. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing. — Tom Stoppard
Between us, we cover all knowledge; he knows all that can be known and I know the rest. — Mark Twain
The knowledge of an unlearned man is living and luxuriant like a forest, but covered with mosses and lichens and for the most part inaccessible… — Henry David Thoreau
Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of the one who is wise. — William Penn
Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth. — Francis Picabia
Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't. — Benjamin Franklin
I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so. — Michel de Montaigne
Wisdom, Niko thought as he leaned his cheek against his long-handled rake, cannot be had without price. — Janet Morris
Careful studies of cases dealing with supposed 'mental disorder' have at times revealed that many thought to be insane or warped in some fashion were… — Aberjhani
Knowledge without education is but armed injustice. — Horace
He mastered whatever was not worth the knowing. — James Russell Lowell
Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven. — Henry David Thoreau
At its most dynamic, faith evolves into powerful applicable knowledge. — Aberjhani

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