KNOWLEDGE

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(768 votes)  The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.

Confucius
BC 551-479, Chinese Ethical Teacher, Philosopher

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(763 votes)  To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

Confucius
BC 551-479, Chinese Ethical Teacher, Philosopher

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(603 votes)  If you have knowledge, let others light their candles with it.

Winston Churchill
1874-1965, British Statesman, Prime Minister

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(490 votes)  There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.

Benjamin Franklin
1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat

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(456 votes)  There are things known, and there are things unknown. And in between are the doors.

Jim Morrison
1943-1971, American Rock Musician

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(382 votes)  Boys, I may not know much, but I know chicken shit from chicken salad.

Lyndon B. Johnson
1908-1973, Thirty-sixth President of the USA

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(364 votes)  ''Knowledge is power.'' Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -- broad, deep knowledge -- is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to feel the great heartthrobs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.

Helen Keller
1880-1968, American Blind/Deaf Author, Lecturer, Amorist

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(340 votes)  Man knows more than he understands.

Alfred Adler
1870-1937, Austrian Psychiatrist

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(252 votes)  ''How do you know so much about everything?'' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was ''By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.

John Abbott
American Actor

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(251 votes)  Many people think of knowledge as money, They would like knowledge, but do not want to face the perseverance and self-denial that goes into the acquisition of it.

John Morely

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(242 votes)  The conqueror and king in each one of us is the knower of truth. Let the knower awaken in us and drive the horses of the mind, emotions, and physical body on the pathway which that king has chosen.

George S. Arundale

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(233 votes)  The long unmeasured pulse of time moves everything. There is nothing hidden that it cannot bring to light, nothing once known that may not become unknown.

Sophocles
BC 495-406, Greek Tragic Poet

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(222 votes)  Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.

George Santayana
1863-1952, American Philosopher, Poet

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(198 votes)  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, American Journalist, Humorist

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(189 votes)  A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Kahlil Gibran
1883-1931, Lebanese Poet, Novelist

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(189 votes)  The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(184 votes)  Real knowledge, like everything else of value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for, studied for, thought for, and, more that all, must be prayed for.

Thomas Arnold
1795-1842, British Educator, Scholar

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(181 votes)  Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

Kahlil Gibran
1883-1931, Lebanese Poet, Novelist

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(179 votes)  We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world -- introspection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very considerably -- that the best way of knowing the inwardness of our neighbors is to know ourselves.

Walter Lippmann
1889-1974, American Journalist

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(177 votes)  Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

Carl Jung
1875-1961, Swiss Psychiatrist

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(175 votes)  Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.

Josh Billings
1815-1885, American Humorist, Lecturer

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(172 votes)  He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

Ellen Glasgow
1874-1945, American Novelist

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(161 votes)  The trouble with most folks ain't so much their ignorance as knowing so many things that ain't so.

Josh Billings
1815-1885, American Humorist, Lecturer

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(157 votes)  I honestly believe it is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.

Josh Billings
1815-1885, American Humorist, Lecturer

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(155 votes)  The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

Laurence Sterne
1713-1768, British Author

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(154 votes)  Become aware of internal, subjective, sub-verbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction, of conversation, of naming, etc. with the consequence that it immediately becomes possible for a certain amount of control to be exerted over these hitherto unconscious and uncontrollable processes.

Abraham H. Maslow
1908-1970, American Psychologist

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(152 votes)  The end of learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love Him and imitate Him.

John Milton
1608-1674, British Poet

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(151 votes)  True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

Baltasar Gracian
1601-1658, Spanish Philosopher, Writer

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(151 votes)  He who knows little quickly tells it.

Italian Proverb
Sayings of Italian Origin

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(151 votes)  Men can acquire knowledge, but not wisdom. Some of the greatest fools ever known were learned men.

Spanish Proverb
Sayings of Spanish Origin

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(150 votes)  Own more than thou showest, speak less than thou knowest.

William Shakespeare
1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor

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(150 votes)  Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(149 votes)  Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.

William James
1842-1910, American Psychologist, Professor, Author

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(148 votes)  What is not fully understood is not possessed.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(147 votes)  Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.

Confucius
BC 551-479, Chinese Ethical Teacher, Philosopher

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(144 votes)  God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country!

Benjamin Franklin
1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat

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(144 votes)  An humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.

Thomas p Kempis
1379-1471, German Monk, Mystic, Religious Writer

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(143 votes)  To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

Lao-Tzu
BC 600-?, Chinese Philosopher, Founder of Taoism, Author of the ''Tao Te Ching''

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(141 votes)  To know oneself, one should assert oneself. Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

Albert Camus
1913-1960, French Existential Writer

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(139 votes)  It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

William Ellery Channing
1780-1842, American Unitarian Minister, Author

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(139 votes)  Know thyself? If I knew myself I would run away.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(136 votes)  When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it--this is knowledge.

Confucius
BC 551-479, Chinese Ethical Teacher, Philosopher

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(136 votes)  Knowledge like timber shouldn't be mush use till they are seasoned.

Oliver Wendell Holmes
1809-1894, American Author, Wit, Poet

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(135 votes)  Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge is meditation. But better still is surrender of attachment to results, because there follows immediate peace.

Bhagavad Gita
c. BC 400-, Sanskrit Poem Incorporated Into the Mahabharata

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(135 votes)  Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.

Thomas H. Huxley
1825-1895, British Biologist, Educator

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(134 votes)  One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.

Socrates
BC 469-399, Greek Philosopher of Athens

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(133 votes)  Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.

Pearl S. Buck
1892-1973, American Novelist

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(133 votes)  To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject.

Georg C. Lichtenberg
1742-1799, German Physicist, Satirist

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(132 votes)  There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge -- that is everywhere.

Hermann Hesse
1877-1962, German-born Swiss Novelist, Poet

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(132 votes)  Self knowers always dwell in El Dorado; they drink from the fountain of youth, and at all times owners of all they wish to enjoy.

Claude M. Bristol
1891-1951, American Author of ''The Magic of Believing''

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