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Knowledge of the tallest scientist or the greatest spiritualist is like a particle of dust.
Pocket all your knowledge with your watch, and never pull it out in company unless desired.
Vast is the field of Science... the more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.
Knowledge is a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.
Whoever acquires knowledge but does not practice it is as one who ploughs but does not sow.
When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge.
Knowledge has its end in itself, apart from any idea of life and propagation of the species.
It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire a knowledge of other people's business.
Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.
Correct becomes defect. Good becomes ominous. People's delusions have certainly lasted long.
The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
Women, in general, are not attracted to art at all, nor knowledge, and not at all to genius.
In order to acquire intellect one must need it. One loses it when it is no longer necessary.
Praised be the fathomless universe, for life and joy, and for objects and knowledge curious.
We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.
It gets harder the more you know. Because the more you find out the uglier everything seems.
Knowledge is the key to survival, the real beauty of that is that it doesn't weigh anything.
There is a chasm between knowledge and ignorance which the arches of science can never span.
Democracy requires information. Plato knew that informed decision-making requires knowledge.
Humility about how little I know has encouraged me to listen more carefully and more wisely.
The real scholar learns how to evolve the unknown from the known, and draws near the master.
Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.
If knowledge and foresight are too penetrating and deep, unify them with ease and sincerity.
Where my reason, imagination or interest were not engaged, I would not or I could not learn.
Knowledge should be a public good, and I want my ideas to have as much exposure as possible.
So much has already been written about everything that you can't find out anything about it.
Children love to be alone because alone is where they know themselves, and where they dream.
That there should one man die ignorant who had capacity for knowledge, this I call a tragedy.
Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
The age we live in is a busy age; in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection.
If we want our children to value education, then we must show our appreciation for knowledge.
All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.
I really like knowledge and reading books and just generally immersing myself in information.
Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.
I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.
All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
If those who do not possess knowledge avoid the scholarly discussions, disagreement will end.
Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.
Nothing tends so much to the advancement of knowledge as the application of a new instrument.
Learning is the process whereby knowledge is created through the transformation of experience
And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, that one small head could carry all he knew.
He who repeats what he does not understand is no better than an ass that is loaded with books.
Knowledge must come through action. You can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.
The more you know, the more you know you don't know and the more you know that you don't know.
The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.
Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so called scientific knowledge.
To have knowledge and to know are two different things, and one is possible without the other.
Knowledge comes by taking things apart, analysis. But wisdom comes by putting things together.
I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.
He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.