What we know is built on what we do not know.
Information and knowledge: two currencies that have never gone out of style.
NEIL GAIMAN, American Gods
The misapplication of our knowledge is, in general, more injurious to our happiness and interest, than either the privations of ignorance, or the disqualifications of inexperience.
NORMAN MACDONALD, Maxims and Moral Reflections
Men have hunger, sleep, fear and carnal intercourse in common with the lower animals. It is only knowledge that a man has more than they. Those men who have not it may be regarded as beasts.
CHANAKYA, Vridda-Chanakya
I know somewhat too much; and from this knowledge, once one has been infected, there seems to be no recovering.
J. M. COETZEE, Waiting for the Barbarians
Seek knowledge from the purest source.
Knowledge of the world depends on the power of drawing general inferences from individual examples; and he is the most likely to be correct who has the greatest number of facts at his command.
CHARLES WILLIAM DAY, The Maxims, Experiences, and Observations of Agogos
Human knowledge is the parent of doubt.
FULKE GREVILLE, Maxims, Characters and Reflections
Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.
ALVIN TOFFLER, Powershift
All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance.
Let every sluice of knowledge be opened and set a-flowing.
JOHN ADAMS, A Dissertation on the Canon and the Feudal Law
To furnish the means of acquiring knowledge is ... the greatest benefit that can be conferred upon mankind. It prolongs life itself and enlarges the sphere of existence.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS, report on the establishment of the Smithsonian Institution, 1846
Knowledge often cuts the root that supports it.
It's a hard talk for a man to say I don't know; it hurts his pride: but should not the pretending he does, hurt it much more?
FULKE GREVILLE, Maxims, Characters, and Reflections
The world grows more enlightened. Knowledge is more equally diffused.
JOHN ADAMS, Discourses on Davila, No. 13
I do not approve the maxim which desires a man to know a little of everything. Superficial knowledge, knowledge without principles, is almost always useless and sometimes harmful knowledge.
LUC DE CLAPIERS, MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES, Reflections and Maxims
Knowledge grows exponentially. The more we know, the greater our ability to learn, and the faster we expand our knowledge base.
DAN BROWN, The Lost Symbol
To receive instruction and knowledge is as natural as to receive the light of the sun, if a man opens his eyes.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms
Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment the treasurer of a wise man. He that has more knowledge than judgment, is made for another man's use more than his own.
WILLIAM PENN, Some Fruits of Soli
Knowledge without follow-through is worse than no knowledge at all. because if you're guessing and it doesn't work out you can just say, shit, the gods are against me. but if you know and don't do, you've got attics and dark halls in your mind to walk up and down in and wonder about. this ain't healthy, leads to unpleasant evenings, too much to drink and the shredding machine.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI, Notes of a Dirty Old Man
Knowledge alone doth not amount to Virtue; but certainly there is no Virtue without Knowledge.
BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE, Moral and Religious Aphorisms
That is the beginning of knowledge--the discovery of something we do not understand.
FRANK HERBERT, God Emperor of Dune
Knowledge is a tool, and like all tools, its impact is in the hands of the user.
DAN BROWN, The Lost Symbol
We are trained to believe and not to know.
BRIAN HERBERT & KEVEN J. ANDERSON, Dune: House Corrino
As with all knowledge, once you knew it, you couldn't imagine how it was that you hadn't known it before.
MARGARET ATWOOD, The Year of the Flood
- The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn
- When teachers themselves are taught to learn.
BERTOLT BRECHT, Life of Galileo
Too much knowledge never makes for simple decisions.
FRANK HERBERT, Children of Dune
The less we know, the longer the explanation.
BRIAN HERBERT & KEVEN J. ANDERSON, Dune: House Corrino
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