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Saturday, 19 July 2008
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"In many walks of life, a conscience is a more expensive encumbrance than a wife or a carriage." (Quincey, Thomas De - Conscience)

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Browse Quotations about Knowledge

A knowledge of men is the prime secret of business success.
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows.
A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.
A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
A superficial knowledge is not enough. It must be a knowledge capable of analyzing a situation quickly and making an immediate decision.
A wise man, when asked how he had learned so much about everything, replied: By never being ashamed or afraid to ask questions about anything of which I was ignorant.
Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.
All knowledge is ambiguous.
All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.
And all your future lies beneath your hat.
And you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free. [John 8:32]
As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value to you than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.
Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you: you must acquire it.
Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge is meditation. But better still is surrender of attachment to results, because there follows immediate peace.
Between us, we cover all knowledge; he knows all that can be known and I know the rest.
Boys, I may not know much, but I know chicken shit from chicken salad.
Charles V. said that a man who knew four languages was worth four men; and Alexander the Great so valued learning, that he used to say he was more indebted to Aristotle for giving him knowledge that, than his father Philip for giving him life.
Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older; they merely know more.
Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.
During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief.
Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.
Every animal knows more than you do.
Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.
Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not.
Far better is it to know everything of a little than a little of everything.
For lust of knowing what should not be known, we take the Golden Road to Samarkand.
God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country!
He knows so little and knows it so fluently.
He mastered whatever was not worth the knowing.
He who does not know one thing knows another
He who knows little quickly tells it.
He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.
How do you know so much about everything? was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.
I am not young enough to know everything.
I find that a great part of the information I have, was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.
I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.
I honestly believe it is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.
I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.
I think I could, if I only knew how to begin. For, you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately that Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible.
I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.
I wish I knew what I know now before.
I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor.
If you have knowledge, let others light their candles with it.
If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.
In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal.
It is better of course to know useless things than to know nothing.
It is disgraceful to live as a stranger in one's country, and be an alien in any matter that affects our welfare.
It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.
It is not good to know more unless we do more with what we already know.
It is not so important to know everything as to know the exact value of everything, to appreciate what we learn, and to arrange what we know.
It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.
It is nothing for one to know something unless another knows you know it.
It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning.
It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.
It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches.
It's a dangerous thing to think we know everything.
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 never become a butterfly.
Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.
Know-how will surpass guess-how.
Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.
Knowledge always demands increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but will afterwards always propagate itself.
Knowledge and human power are synonymous.
Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to practical use.
Knowledge comes by eyes always open and working hands; and there is no knowledge that is not power.
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession -- a property entirely our own.
Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.
Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.
Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.
Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.
Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.