The repository contains 38 quotes in the category “Knowledge.”
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If Virtue & Knowledge are diffus’d among the People, they will never be enslav’d. This will be their great Security.
Governor Samuel Adams
1722 — 1803
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 B.C.
Selected as the most confusing public statement of 2003 by Britain's Plain English Campaign:
Reports that say something hasn’t happened are interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns -- the ones we don’t know we don’t know.
Secretary Donald Rumsfeld
1932 —
Everyone has a photographic memory. Some don’t have film.
Steven Wright
1955 —
If a nation expects to be both ignorant and free, it expects what never was and never will be.
President Thomas Jefferson
1743 — 1826
At a dinner honoring American Nobel Prize winners, April 29, 1962:
I think that this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White House, with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.
President John F. Kennedy
1917 — 1963
If you can’t explain it simply, than you don’t know it well enough.
There is no knowledge that is not power.
Strange how much you have to know before you know how little you know.
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
1809 — 1892
Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.
Will Rogers
1879 — 1935
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert Einstein
1879 — 1955
It is better to know and not need, than to need and not know.
Bruce Lee
1940 — 1973
Everybody knows everything.
Jack Kerouac
1922 — 1969
Ignorance is preferable to the illusion of knowledge.
Thomas Sowell
1930 —
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
Mark Twain
1835 — 1910
He that hath knowledge spareth his words.
The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.
Ralph W. Sockman
1889 — 1970
The value of the average conversation could be enormously improved by the constant use of four simple words: “I do not know.”
André Maurois
1885 — 1967
If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?
T. H. Huxley
1825 — 1895
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