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Whatever authority I may have rests
solely on knowing how little I know.

Socrates
   

I think that by far the most important bill in our whole code is that
for the diffusion of knowledge among the people.  No other sure
foundation can be devised for the preservation of freedom, and happiness.

Thomas Jefferson

      
In seeking knowledge, the first step is silence, the second listening,
the third remembering, the fourth practicing, and the fifth--teaching others.

Solomon Ibn Gabirol
  

For all people strive to grasp what they do not know, while
none strive to grasp what they already know; and all strive
to discredit what they do not excel in, while none strive
to discredit what they do excel in.  This is why there is chaos.

Chuang Tzu

   

Any piece of knowledge I acquire today has a value at this moment
exactly proportioned to my skill to deal with it.  Tomorrow, when
I know more, I recall that piece of knowledge and use it better.

Mark van Doren


The aim of education is the knowledge not of fact, but of values.

Dean William R. Inge
  

Trust yourself.
You know more than you think you do.

Benjamin Spock
   
   
  

We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us;
and the more we gain, the more is our desire.  The more we see,
the more we are capable of seeing.

Maria Mitchell 
  

There is a great difference between
knowing a thing and understanding it.

Charles Kettering
  
  
  
Knowledge cannot make us
all leaders, but it can help us
decide which leader to follow.

Management Digest

  

I like to have a person's knowledge comprehend
more than one class of topics, one row of shelves.
I like a person who likes to see a fine barn
as well as a good tragedy.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

  

  

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Imagination is more important than knowledge.  For while
knowledge defines all we currently know and understand,
imagination points to all we might yet discover and create.

Albert Einstein

  

Nothing will divide this nation more than ignorance,
and nothing can bring us together better than an educated population.

John Sculley
  
The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

Bertrand Russell

It is impossible for people to learn
what they think they already know.

Epictetus
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Khalil Gibran

For we can only know that we know nothing,
and a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.

Chuang Tzu

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To know that we know what we know, and to know
that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.

Copernicus
   

The preservation of the means of knowledge among the lowest ranks
is of more importance to the public than all the property of the rich men in the country.

John Adams
  
Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own
governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

James Madison
   

   
    
    

No university on Earth gives master’s degrees of living, of happiness.
How strange!  We seem to be missing the essential, the all-encompassing
knowledge for which universities were originally created!

Robert Muller
    

The gulf between knowledge and truth is infinite.

Henry Miller
    

True knowledge is not attained by thinking.
It is what you are; it is what you become.

Sri Aurobindo
   

    
Those who would know the world, seek first within your beings' depths;
those who would truly know themselves, develop interest in the world.

Rudolf Steiner
    

To know how little one knows is to have genuine knowledge.
Not to know how little one knows is to be deluded.
Only those who know when they are deluded can free themselves
from such delusion.  The intelligent people are not deluded,
because they know and accept their ignorance as ignorance,
and thereby have genuine knowledge.

Lao-tzu
    

If a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, where is a person
who has so much as to be out of danger?

Thomas Henry Huxley
    
Human life is limited, but knowledge is limitless.  To drive the
limited in pursuit of the limitless is fatal; and to presume
that one really knows is fatal indeed!

Chuang Tzu
   

   

Confucius said, "To know what you know and know what you don't know
is the characteristic of one who knows."
   

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom.  One can find it, live it,
be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

Herman Hesse
   
Knowledge is also borrowed.  It is not a flower that grows in your soul,
it is something plastic that has been imposed upon you.

Osho
  

The fruits of the tree of knowledge are various;
they must be strong indeed who can digest all of them.

Mary Coleridge
   
Knowing what you know,
be serene also, like a mountain;
and do not be distressed by misfortune.
Knowledge without serenity
is an unlit candle;
together they are honey-comb;
honey without wax is a noble thing;
wax without honey is only fit for burning.

Hakim Sanai
   

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We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that the savage has,
because we know how it is made. We have lost as much
as we gained by prying into that matter.

Mark Twain
  

The greatest obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth,
the continents and the oceans was not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge.

Daniel J. Boorstin

   

No scientist knows the world merely by holding it at arm's length:
if we ever managed to build the objectivist wall between the
knower and the known, we could know nothing except the wall
itself.  Science requires an engagement with the world, a live
encounter between the knower and the known. That encounter has
moments of distance, but it would not be an encounter without
moments of intimacy as well.
Knowing of any sort is relational, animated by a desire to come
into deeper community with what we know.

Parker J. Palmer
The Courage to Teach

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