Knowledge Quotes

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In the world we live in, what we know and what we don't know are like Siamese twins, inseparable, existing in a state of confusion. — Haruki Murakami
You must know all there is to know in your particular field and keep on the alert for new knowledge. The least difference in knowledge… — Henry Ford
We ought to be ten times as hungry for knowledge as for food for the body. — Henry Ward Beecher
Knowledge is a mimic creation. — Horace Mann
As each generation comes into the world devoid of knowledge, its first duty is to obtain possession of the stores already amassed. It must overtake… — Horace Mann
When the panting and thirsting soul first drinks the delicious waters of truth, when the moral and intellectual tastes and desires first seize the fragrant… — Horace Mann
Knowledge is but an instrument, which the profligate and the flagitious may use as well as the brave and the just. — Horace Mann
If there is anything for which I would go back to childhood, and live this weary life over again, it is for the burning, exalting,… — Horace Mann
Few can tell what they know without also showing what they do not know. — Ivan Panin
What we know is to what we do not know, as a grain of sand is to the beach. — Ivan Panin
Knowledge is a collective enterprise. Without it understanding is impossible. Ignorance is too often a murderous vulnerability. — Jane Rule
Omniscience ... is an excellent quality in God, but suspect in everyone else. — Jennifer Lee Carrell
What a man does not understand, he does not possess. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The history of knowledge is a great fugue in which the voices of the nations one after the other emerge. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
With the growth of knowledge our ideas must from time to time be organized afresh. The change takes place usually in accordance with new maxims… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The greatest piece of folly is that every man thinks himself compelled to hand down what people think they have known. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
When intelligent and sensible people despise knowledge in their old age, it is only because they have asked too much of it and of themselves. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
At all times it has not been the age, but individuals alone, who have worked for knowledge. It was the age which put Socrates to… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The real scholar learns how to evolve the unknown from the known, and draws near the master. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Can you avoid knowledge? You cannot! Can you avoid technology? You cannot! Things are going to go ahead in spite of ethics, in spite of… — Jose Manuel Rodriguez Delgado

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