Knowledge Quotes

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They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge. — Thomas Reed
The authentic insight and experience of any human soul, were it but insight and experience in hewing of wood and drawing of water, is real… — Thomas Carlyle
Merit and knowledge will not gain hearts, though they will secure them when gained. — Lord Chesterfield
Partial knowledge is more triumphant than complete knowledge; it takes things to be simpler than they are, and so makes its theory more popular and… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Some drink deeply from the river of knowledge. Others only gargle. — Woody Allen
Right conduct can never, except by some rare accident, be promoted by ignorance or hindered by knowledge. — Bertrand Russell
In the knowledge of truth, what really matters is the possession of it, not the impulse under which it was sought. — Friedrich Nietzsche
It is knowledge that influences and equalizes the social condition of man; that gives to all, however different their political position, passions which are in… — Benjamin Disraeli
Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false. — Charles Caleb Colton
To be proud of knowledge is to be blind with light. — Benjamin Franklin
Such is the constitution of the human mind, that any kind of knowledge, if it be really such, is its own reward. — John Henry Newman
Mediocrity has no greater consolation than in the thought that genius is not immortal. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The right to know is like the right to live. It is fundamental and unconditional in its assumption that knowledge, like life, is a desirable… — George Bernard Shaw
Many men are stored full of unused knowledge. Like loaded guns that are never fired off, or military magazines in times of peace, they are… — Henry Ward Beecher
Conversation is not a search after knowledge, but an endeavor at effect. — John Keats
The bulk of the world's knowledge is an imaginary construction. — Helen Keller
Doubt is not below knowledge, but above it. — Alain-Rene Lesage
Facts are all accidents. They all might have been different. They all may become different. They may all collapse altogether. — George Santayana
Nowhere else can one find so miscellaneous, so various, an amount of knowledge as is contained in a good newspaper. — Henry Ward Beecher
Man never knows what he wants; he aspires to penetrate mysteries and as soon as he has, wants to re-establish them. Ignorance irritates him and… — Henri Frederic Amiel

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