The repository contains 38 quotes in the category “Knowledge.”
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They used to say that knowledge is power. I used to think so, but I now know that they mean money.
Lord Byron
1788 — 1824
It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.
Henry David Thoreau
1817 — 1862
There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
Goethe
1749 — 1832
If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it away from him. An investment of knowledge always pays the best interest.
Benjamin Franklin
1706 — 1790
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
Niels Bohr
1885 — 1962
Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won’t come in.
Alan Alda
1936 —
Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.
Arthur Schopenhauer
1788 — 1860
I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.
Franklin P. Adams
1881 — 1960
Learn to say “I don’t know.” If used when appropriate, it will be often.
Secretary Donald Rumsfeld
1932 —
If most people said what’s on their minds, they’d be speechless.
Not to know is bad; not to wish to know is worse.
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
Isaac Asimov
1920 — 1992
Knowledge is power.
Francis Bacon
1561 — 1626
The more extensive a man’s knowlege of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.
Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli
1804 — 1881
Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.
Khalil Gibran
1883 — 1931
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
James Thurber
1894 — 1961
An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It’s being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don’t.
Anatole France
1844 — 1924
I am not young enough to know everything.
Oscar Wilde
1854 — 1900
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