Knowledge Quotes

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A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle. — Khalil Gibran
I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art. — Khalil Gibran
The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom. — Khalil Gibran
Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain. — Khalil Gibran
No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge. — Khalil Gibran
Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge. — Khalil Gibran
Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to… — Khalil Gibran
Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds. — Khalil Gibran
Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again. — Andre Gide
Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would… — Andre Gide
So I'd be quite happy to have a three-hour Lincoln-Douglas-style debate with Barack Obama. I'd let him use a teleprompter. I'll just rely on knowledge.… — Newt Gingrich
I think it is totally wrong and terribly harmful if education is defined as acquiring knowledge. — William Glasser
We don't focus as much in schools on educational knowledge which requires thinking and application, as we do on acquiring facts. — William Glasser
As long as acquiring knowledge is the educational goal of schools, educational opportunities will be limited, as they are now, to affluent families. — William Glasser
I think education is both using and improving knowledge and that changes the whole picture. — William Glasser
The future of publishing is about having connections to readers and the knowledge of what those readers want. — Seth Godin
Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again. — Vincent Van Gogh

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