Knowledge Quotes
8542 quotes by 4159 authors
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That there should one man die ignorant who had capacity for knowledge, this I call a tragedy.
— Thomas Carlyle
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A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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To know that one knows what one knows, and to know that one doesn't know what one doesn't know, there lies true wisdom.
— Confucius
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All true knowledge contradicts common sense.
— Mandell Creighton
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Knowledge is power. Unfortunate dupes of this saying will keep on creating, ambitiously, till they have stunned their native initiative and made their thoughts weak.
— Clarence Day
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Knowledge is power but only wisdom is liberty.
— Will Durant
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We know nothing at all. All our knowledge is but the knowledge of schoolchildren. The real nature of things we shall never know.
— Albert Einstein
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The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown.
— Albert Einstein
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And what word is knowledge but a shadow of wordless knowledge?
— Khalil Gibran
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Belief is not the beginning of knowledge - it is the end.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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He who knows what he is told must know a lot of things that are not so.
— Arthur Guiterman
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The origin of all science is the desire to know causes, and the origin of all false science is the desire to accept false causes…
— William Hazlitt
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Zeal will do more than knowledge.
— William Hazlitt
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The majority of people have no understanding of the things with which they daily meet, nor, when instructed, do they have any right knowledge of…
— Heraclitus
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To know all things is not permitted.
— Horace
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Where there is the tree of knowledge, there is always Paradise: so say the most ancient and most modern serpents.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Knowledge has three degrees--opinion, science, illumination. The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.
— Plotinus
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What men really want is not knowledge but certainty.
— Bertrand Russell
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Nature has given us the seeds of knowledge, not knowledge itself.
— Seneca the Younger
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It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.
— W. Somerset Maugham
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