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 | The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. — Isaac Asimov, 1920-1992, American Sci-Fi writer 49 likes |
 | Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked. — Lord Chesterfield, 1694-1773, English statesman & writer 22 likes |
| Uncertainty that comes from knowledge (knowing what you don't know) is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance. — Isaac Asimov, 1920-1992, American Sci-Fi writer 20 likes |
 | Once your soul has been enlarged by a truth, it can never return to its original size. — Blaise Pascal, 1623-1662, French thinker 17 likes |
 | Every other knowledge is harmful to him who does not have knowledge of goodness. — Michel de Montaigne, 1533-1592, French thinker 13 likes |
 | Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do. — Wolfgang Goethe, 1749-1832, German poet & philosopher 13 likes |
 | In an age in which the media broadcast countless pieces of foolishness, the educated man is defined not by what he knows, but by what he doesn't know. — Nicolas Gomez Davila, 1913-1994, Colombian writer 12 likes |
 | Those who know do not speak; those who speak do not know. — Lao-Tzu, 6th cent. BC, Chinese philosopher 10 likes |
 | Knowledge is power. — Francis Bacon, 1561-1626, English philosopher 9 likes |
 | Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie. — Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1889-1951, Austrian philosopher 8 likes |
 | What gets us into trouble is not what we don't know. It's what we know for sure that just ain't so. — Mark Twain, 1835-1910, American writer 8 likes |
 | General Knowledges are those Knowledges that Idiots possess. — William Blake, 1757-1827, English poet & painter 8 likes |
 | But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows. — Immanuel Kant, 1724-1804, German philosopher 7 likes |
 | Knowledge is power but only wisdom is liberty. — Will Durant, 1885-1981, American historian & philosopher 7 likes |
| Facts replaced understanding; and knowledge, split into a thousand isolated fragments, no longer generated wisdom. — Will Durant, 1885-1981, American historian & philosopher 7 likes |
 | Faith is the Knowledge of the Heart, Logic the Knowledge of the Mind. — Erica Jong, 1942-, American writer 7 likes |
 | A well-stocked mind is safe from boredom. — Arthur Clarke, 1917-2008, British Sci-Fi writer 6 likes |
| You really only know when you know little. Doubt grows with knowledge. — Wolfgang Goethe, 1749-1832, German poet & philosopher 6 likes |
 | They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts. — Philip Sidney, 1554-1586, English poet & courtier 6 likes |
 | People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care. — Theodore Roosevelt, 1858-1919, American President [1901-1909] 6 likes |
 | You cannot become highly educated if you only read what you like. — Joseph Joubert, 1754-1824, French author of maxims 6 likes |
 | The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything. — Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900, Irish writer 5 likes |
 | I want to know God's thoughts - the rest are mere details. — Albert Einstein, 1879-1955, German-Jewish physicist 5 likes |
| If we do not plant knowledge when young, it will give us no shade when we are old. — Lord Chesterfield, 1694-1773, English statesman & writer 5 likes |
| Since we cannot know all there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything. — Blaise Pascal, 1623-1662, French thinker 5 likes |
 | Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. — Alfred Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet 5 likes |
| The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet. — Lord Chesterfield, 1694-1773, English statesman & writer 4 likes |
 | You'll never know everything about anything, especially something you love. — Julia Child, 1912-2004, American chef, author & TV personality. 4 likes |
 | To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge. — Confucius, 551-479 BC, Chinese teacher & philosopher 4 likes |
 | What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, 1742-1799, German author of maxims 4 likes |
 | To know what everyone knows is to know nothing. Knowledge begins where what the world does not know begins. — Remy de Gourmont, 1858-1915, French poet 4 likes |
 | It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters. — Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844-1900, German philosopher 4 likes |
 | Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do. — Leonardo da Vinci, 1452-1519, Italian polymath & painter 4 likes |
 | True education is the ability to discern the difference between what you do know and what you don't. — Anatole France, 1844-1924, French writer, Nobel 1921 4 likes |
 | I’m not young enough to know everything. — James Barrie, 1860-1937, English writer 4 likes |
 | Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion. Bewilderment brings intuitive knowledge. — Rumi, 1207-1273, Persian mystic & poet 4 likes |
 | Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life. — Eleanor Roosevelt, 1884-1962, Wife of the 32nd USA president 4 likes |
 | The knowledge of only one nation, the Greeks, have come down to us, because they were translated thanks to caliph Al-Mamun. He succeeded because he had many translators and spent a lot of money for this project. — Ibn Khaldoun, 1332-1406, Arab historian & sage 4 likes |
 | In todays economy, the most important resource is no longer labor, capital or land; it is knowledge — Peter Drucker, 1909–2005, Austrian management guru 3 likes |
 | I know more than I can express in words, and the little I can express would not have been expressed, had I not known more. — Vladimir Nabokov, 1899-1977, Russian-American writer 3 likes |
 | Just Say Know. — Timothy Leary, 1920-1996, American psychologist 3 likes |
| The true method of knowledge is experiment. — William Blake, 1757-1827, English poet & painter 3 likes |
 | Education is the acquisition of the art of the utilisation of knowledge. — Alfred North Whitehead, 1861-1947, British philosopher & mathematician 3 likes |
 | Eternal vigilance is the price of knowledge. — George Santayana, 1863-1952, Spanish-American philosopher 3 likes |
| What do I know? Que sais-je? — Michel de Montaigne, 1533-1592, French thinker 3 likes |
| Knowledge is Life with wings — William Blake, 1757-1827, English poet & painter 2 likes |
 | When we first fall in love, we feel that we know all there is to know about life, and perhaps we are right. — Mignon McLaughlin, 1913-1983, American magazine editor 2 likes |
| I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith. — Immanuel Kant, 1724-1804, German philosopher 2 likes |
 | Live and act within the limit of your knowledge and keep expanding it to the limit of your life. — Ayn Rand, 1905-1982, American writer & philosopher 2 likes |
 | The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it. — Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784, English writer 2 likes |
| Greek, sir, is like lace; every man gets as much of it as he can. — Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784, English writer 2 likes |
 | The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught. — Vauvenargues, 1715-1747, French author of maxims 2 likes |
| Shakespeare wrote better poetry for not knowing too much; Milton, I think, knew too much finally for the good of his poetry. — Alfred North Whitehead, 1861-1947, British philosopher & mathematician 2 likes |
| Education which is not modern share the fate of all organic things which are kept too long. — Alfred North Whitehead, 1861-1947, British philosopher & mathematician 2 likes |
| A man who has never gone to school may steal a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad. — Theodore Roosevelt, 1858-1919, American President [1901-1909] 2 likes |
 | Science without conscience is only ruin of the soul. — François Rabelais, 1484-1553, French writer 2 likes |
| Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. — Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784, English writer 2 likes |
 | To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of things eternal; to knowledge, the rational apprehension of things temporal. — Saint Augustine, 354-430, Christian theologian & philosopher 2 likes |
 | Consider your origin. You were not formed to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge. — Dante, 1265-1321, Italian poet 2 likes |
 | The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand. — Frank Herbert, 1920-1986, American sci-fi writer 1 likes |
 | My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people do not know. |
 | Know or listen to those who know. |
 | Just in the ratio knowledge increases, faith decreases. |
 | Knowledge and timber shouldn’t be much used, till they are seasoned. |
| A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge. |
 | The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge. |
| Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. |
| The pursuit of philosophy is founded on the belief that knowledge is good, even if what is known is painful. |
 | It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of our own ignorance. |
| Ideas are everywhere, but knowledge is rare. |
| Civilization is an enormous device for economizing on knowledge. |
 | Erudition, n. Dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull. |
| Old age was naturally more honored in times when people could not know much more than what they had seen. |
 | People who read only the classics are sure to remain up-to-date. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, 1830-1916, German author of maxims |
 | All types of knowledge, ultimately mean self knowledge. |
| Learning is never cumulative, it is a movement of knowing which has no beginning and no end. |
| Knowledge will give you power, but character respect. |
 | Vice is perhaps a desire to learn everything. |
 | We are the bees of the Universe. We frantically plunder the honey of the visible to accumulate it in the great golden hive of the invisible. |
 | Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably. |
 | Everything has been said, and we are more than 7000 years of human thought too late. |
 | Something that everyone knows isn’t worth anything. — Bernard Baruch, 1870-1965, American businessman & statesman |
 | Knowing things is magical, if other people don’t know them. |
| They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance. |
 | The message is that there are no “knowns.” There are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say there are things that we now know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we do not know we don't know. |
 | Do you train for passing tests or do you train for creative inquiry? — Noam Chomsky, 1928-, American linguist, philosopher, social activist |
 | The ignorance of how to use knowledge stockpiles exponentially. — Marshall McLuhan, 1911-1980, Canadian academic & media theorist |
| Many a good argument is ruined by some fool who knows what he is talking about. — Marshall McLuhan, 1911-1980, Canadian academic & media theorist |
| Rabelais offers a vision of the future of print culture as a consumer's paradise of applied knowledge. — Marshall McLuhan, 1911-1980, Canadian academic & media theorist |
 | What men call knowledge, is the reasoned acceptance of false appearances. Wisdom looks behind the veil and sees. — Sri Aurobindo, 1872-1950, Indian nationalist, yogi & philosopher |
| Knowledge gropes but meets not Wisdom’s face. — Sri Aurobindo, 1872-1950, Indian nationalist, yogi & philosopher |
| The consciousness of the seer, is a greater power for knowledge than the consciousness of the thinker. The perceptual power of the inner sight is greater and more direct than the perceptual power of thought. — Sri Aurobindo, 1872-1950, Indian nationalist, yogi & philosopher |
| True knowledge is not attained by thinking. It is what you are; it is what you become. — Sri Aurobindo, 1872-1950, Indian nationalist, yogi & philosopher |
 | The more scholastically educated a man is generally, the more he is an emotional boor. |
 | The discoveries of yesterday are the truisms of tomorrow, because we can add to our knowledge but cannot subtract from it. |
 | In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance. |
 | All that we don’t know is astonishing. Even more astonishing is what passes for knowing. |
| Seeing is believing and believing is knowing and knowing beats unknowing and the unknown. |
 | Knowledge isn’t power until it is applied. |
 | Never confuse a hunger for knowledge with a thirst for truth. — Marty Rubin, 1930-1994, Canadian gay activist, author & journalist |
 | Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge. |
| Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous. |
 | All that I’ve learned, I’ve forgotten. The little that I still know, I’ve guessed. |
| The mystery turns to dust if unskillful hands unroll the papyrus. |
| Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie. |
| The difficulty in philosophy is to say no more than we know. |
Bible Quotes
 | We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but love builds up. — Epistles of Paul ‐ 1 Corinthians 8:1 3 likes |
Latin Quotes
 | Dare to know. Aude sapere. 66 likes |
 | Blessed is he who has been able to know the causes of things. Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas. — Virgil, 70-19 BC, Roman poet 35 likes |
Quotes in Verse
 | Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? — T. S. Eliot, 1888-1965, British poet, Nobel 1948 4 likes |
Funny Quotes
| Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do. — Isaac Asimov, 1920-1992, American Sci-Fi writer 21 likes |
 | An expert is someone who knows more and more about less and less, until eventually he knows everything about nothing. — Anonymous 5 likes |
Non-English Quotes
| Que sais-je? What do I know? — Michel de Montaigne, 1533-1592, French thinker 2 likes |
Ancient Greek
 | There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance. Εν μόνον αγαθόν είναι, την επιστήμην, και εν μόνον κακόν, την αμαθίαν. — Socrates, 469-399 BC, Ancient Geek Philosopher 106 likes |
| I know that I know nothing. Εν οίδα ότι ουδέν οίδα. — Socrates, 469-399 BC, Ancient Geek Philosopher ( the “Socratic paradox”; from a Latin quote which was a paraphrase of a Plato’s line and not a real saying by Socrates) 58 likes |
 | Ignorance is bold, knowledge is reserved. Αμαθία μεν θράσος, λογισμός δε όκνον φέρει. — Thucydides, 460-394 BC, Ancient Greek historian 11 likes |
 | Much learning does not teach the mind. Πολυμαθίη νόον ου διδάσκει. — Heraclitus, 544-484 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 11 likes |
 | Knowledge creates happiness. Επιστήμη ποιητική ευδαιμονίας. — Plato, 427-347 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 8 likes |
 | Many, though widely read, have no sense. Πολλοί πολυμαθέες νόον ουκ έχουσιν. — Democritus, 470-370 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 7 likes |
 | Of all our possessions, wisdom alone is immortal. Σοφία μόνον κτημάτων αθάνατον. — Isokrates, 436-338 BC, Ancient Greek rhetorician 6 likes |
| I appear to be wiser than he, because I do not fancy I know what I do not know. Έοικα γούν τούτου γε σμικρώ τινι αυτώ τούτω σοφώτερος είναι, ότι ά μη οίδα ουδέ οίομαι ειδέναι. — Socrates, 469-399 BC, Ancient Geek Philosopher ‐ Apology 6 likes |
 | Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this: to know so much and to have no power. Εχθίστη δε οδύνη εστί των εν ανθρώποισι αύτη, πολλά φρονέοντα μηδενός κρατέειν. — Herodotus, 480-420 BC, Ancient Greek historian, the “ father of History” 5 likes |
| There are two types of knowledge: one through the senses and the other through the intellect. Δύο φησίν είναι γνώσεις: την μεν δια των αισθήσεων την δε δια της διανοίας. — Democritus, 470-370 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 4 likes |
 | All men by nature desire to know. Πάντες άνθρωποι φύσει ορέγονται του ειδέναι. — Aristotle, 384-322 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 4 likes |
Proverbs
 | Even if you know a thousand things, ask someone who knows better. 6 likes |
