Devotions on Knowledge

He Who Knows
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Quotations on Knowledge

Ideas are like beards; men do not have them until they grow up.
- Voltaire
*** If you're not learning while you're earning, you're cheating yourself out of the better portion of your compensation.
- Napoleon Hill
*** The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know.
- Harry S. Truman
*** Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
- H. G. Wells
*** Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
- Jimi Hendrix
*** Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
- Thomas Huxley
*** The fellow who thinks he knows it all is especially annoying to those of us who do.
- Harold Coffin
*** Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates....
- A. Lawrence Lowell
*** If you have to ask, you're not entitled to know. If you don't like the answer, you shouldn't have asked the question.
- Abbott's Admonitions
*** What you don't know will always hurt you.
- First Law of Blissful Ignorance
*** All men by nature desire knowledge.
- Aristotle
*** With regard to excellence, it is not enough to know, but we must try to have and use it.
- Aristotle
*** If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
- Benjamin Franklin
*** The little I know I owe to my ignorance.
- Sacha Guitry
*** Cheap labor is not going to be the way we compete in the United States. It's going to be brain power.
- Rosabeth Moss Kanter
*** All we know is still infinitely less than all that remains unknown.
- William Harvey
*** The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
- Socrates
*** I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
- Socrates
*** Everywhere I went, my cleavage followed. But I learned I am not my cleavage.
- Carole Mallory
*** I think most people are curious about what it would be like to be able to meet yourself -- it's eerie.
- Christy Turlington
*** The world of learning is so broad, and the human soul is so limited in power! We reach forth and strain every nerve, but we seize only a bit of the curtain that hides the infinite from us.
- Maria Mitchell
*** People have to learn sometimes not only how much the heart, but how much the head, can bear.
- Maria Mitchell
*** Besides learning to see, there is another art to be learned�not to see what is not.
- Maria Mitchell
*** He who knoweth the precepts by heart, but faileth to practice them, is like unto one who lighteth a lamp and then shutteth his eyes.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
*** Man's mind, stretched by a new idea, never goes back to its original dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
*** Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.
- Lao Tzu
*** He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.
- Lao Tzu
*** 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
*** There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.
- Bertrand Russell
*** My work, which I've done for a long time, was not pursued in order to gain the praise I now enjoy, but chiefly from a craving after knowledge, which I notice resides in me more than in most other men.
- Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
*** Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
- Marie Curie
*** All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.
- Maurice Maeterlinck
*** I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.
- Douglas Adams
*** It ain't so much the things we don't know that get us in trouble. It's the things we know that ain't so.
- Artemus Ward
*** For loving draws us more to things than knowing does, since good is found by going to the thing, whereas the true is found when the thing comes to us.
- Thomas Aquinas
*** Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.
- Thomas Aquinas
*** Wonder is the desire for knowledge.
- Thomas Aquinas
*** Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a formula.
- Roland Barthes
*** Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
- Immanuel Kant
*** Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much; Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.
- William Cowper
*** A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.
- Carlos Castaneda
*** If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.
- Margaret Fuller
*** You know nothing for sure...except the fact that you know nothing for sure.
- John F. Kennedy
*** One never realizes how much and how little he knows until he starts talking.
- Louis L'Amour
*** We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire; the more we see, the more we are capable of seeing.
- Maria Mitchell
*** I don't know much, but I know a little about a lot of things.
- Oliver Hardy
*** As we acquire more knowldege, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious.
- Albert Schweitzer
*** Give people knowledge and they really eat it up and they appreciate it a lot and the more that knowledge is made available to people, the more they will utilize it and let it be a part of them.
- La Monte Young
*** When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.
- Herbert Spencer
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