Knowledge Quotes

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There is, it seems to us, At best, only a limited value In the knowledge derived from experience. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
The desire to live life to its fullest, to acquire more knowledge, to abandon the economic treadmill, are all typical reactions to these experiences in… — Edgar Mitchell
Knowledge is a sacred cow, and my problem will be how we can milk her while keeping clear of her horns. — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
A youth's knowledge is like a cheap shotgun-likely to do as much damage to the owner as to the game. — Austin O'Malley
Learned men fall into error oftenest by mistaking knowledge for wisdom. — Austin O'Malley
The most that any of us know, is the least of that which is to be known. — Benjamin Whichcote
Men are more readily contented with no intellectual light than with a little; and wherever they have been taught to acquire some knowledge in order… — Charles Caleb Colton
Mathematicians have sought knowledge in figures, Philosophers in systems, Logicians in subtleties, and Metaphysicians in sounds. It is not in any nor in all of… — Charles Caleb Colton
The further we advance in knowledge, the more simplicity shall we discover in those primary rules that regulate all the apparently endless, complicated, and multiform… — Charles Caleb Colton
A man who knows the world will not only make the most of everything he does know, but of many things he does not know,… — Charles Caleb Colton
In the pursuit of knowledge, follow it wherever it is to be found; like fern, it is the produce of all climates, and like coin,… — Charles Caleb Colton
The highest knowledge can be nothing more than the shortest and clearest road to truth; all the rest is pretension, not performance, mere verbiage and… — Charles Caleb Colton
It has been observed that a dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant will see farther than the giant himself; and the moderns, standing… — Charles Caleb Colton
Man is an ignoramus athirst for knowledge. — Charles Wagner
There is but a slight difference between the man who may be said to know nothing and him who thinks he knows everything. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin
It does not make much difference what a person studies-all knowledge is related, and the man who studies anything, if he keeps at it, will… — Elbert Hubbard
Knowledge has a beginning but no end. — Geeta Iyengar
In the case of various kinds of knowledge, we find that what in former days occupied the energies of men of mature mental ability sinks… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
What you know is a club for yourself, and what you don't know is a meat-ax for the other fellow. — George Horace Lorimer
I ain't one of those who believe that a half knowledge of a subject is useless, but it has been my experience that when a… — George Horace Lorimer

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