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Category: Knowledge, Ignorance

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1. "An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest."

Benjamin Franklin

Other categories: Education

2. "There is the known and there is the unknown. In between are The Doors."

Jim Morrison

Other categories: Art and Culture -:- Various

3. "Painting is very easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do."

Edgar Degas

Other categories: Art and Culture

4. "Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live."

Aleksandr Ivanovich Herzen

Other categories: Intellect, Judgement -:- Life and Death

5. "Information can tell us everything. It has all the answers. But they are answers to questions we have not asked, and which doubtless don't even arise."

Jean Baudrillard, "Cool Memories"

Other categories: Science and Technology -:- Question and Problem

6. "To be proud of knowledge is to be blind with light."

Benjamin Franklin

Other categories: Egoism -:- Wisdom and Stupidity

7. "I know too much to be a sceptic and too little to be a dogmatist."

Pierre Bayle, "Historical and Critical Dictionary"

8. "If confusion is the first step to knowledge, I must be a genius."

Larry Leissner

Other categories: Talent and Genius

9. "A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier."

Henry Louis Mencken, "A Mencken Chrestomathy"

Other categories: Various

10. "We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology."

Carl Sagan

Other categories: Science and Technology

11. "I speak others' minds only to speak my own the more."

Michel de Montaigne, "Essays"

Other categories: Various

12. "If you can't make knowledge your servant, make it your friend."

Baltasar Gracian, "The Art of Worldly Wisdom"

13. "All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value."

Carl Sagan

Other categories: Science and Technology -:- Various

14. "If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles."

Sun Tzu

Other categories: Peace and War

15. "Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods."

Albert Einstein

Other categories: Truth and Falsity

16. "Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil not the strength to choose between the two."

John Cheever, "John Cheever: The Journals"

Other categories: Wisdom and Stupidity -:- Good and Evil

17. "Philosophy began when man ate the produce of the earth and suffered indigestion."

Khalil Gibran

Other categories: Science and Technology

18. "Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being."

Orison Swett Marden

Other categories: Wisdom and Stupidity

19. "If we knew what we were doing it wouldn't be research."

Albert Einstein

Other categories: Science and Technology

20. "Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don't have a passport."

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Other categories: Education

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21. "Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Other categories: Dreams and Desires

22. "It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen."

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Other categories: Oration and Silence -:- Wisdom and Stupidity

23. "Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it."

Louis-Ferdinand Céline

Other categories: Wisdom and Stupidity -:- Education

24. "There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don't know."

Ambrose Bierce

Other categories: Wisdom and Stupidity

25. "The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance."

Socrates

Other categories: Good and Evil

26. "Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination."

Bertrand Russell

Other categories: Science and Technology -:- Reality and Imagination

27. "Knowledge does not come to us by details, but in flashes of light from heaven."

Henry David Thoreau

Other categories: Talent and Genius

28. "From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other."

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, "A Study in Scarlet"

Other categories: Science and Technology

29. "The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them."

Sir William Bragg

Other categories: Science and Technology

30. "Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person."

Lewis Mumford

Other categories: Power and Weakness

31. "All my life I believed I knew something. But then one strange day came when I realized that I knew nothing; yes, I knew nothing. And so words became void of meaning. I have arrived too late at ultimate uncertainty."

Ezra Pound

32. "It’s innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn’t."

Mignon McLaughin, "The Neurotic’s Notebook"

Other categories: Manners and Ethics

33. "Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance."

Will Durant

Other categories: Education

34. "When a man goes through six years training to be a doctor he will never be the same. He knows too much."

Enid Bagnold, "Autobiography"

Other categories: Education

35. "You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing."

Herman Melville, "Redburn"

36. "Knowledge is the most democratic source of power."

Alvin Toffler, "The Democratic Difference"

Other categories: Power and Weakness

37. "Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare."

Harriet Martineau

Other categories: Wisdom and Stupidity

38. "Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly."

William James, "Principles of Psychology"

Other categories: Wisdom and Stupidity

39. "Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts."

Henry Brooks Adams, "The Education of Henry Adams"

Other categories: Education

40. "New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become."

Kurt Vonnegut, "Breakfast of Champions"

Other categories: Truth and Falsity

41. "A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows."

G. I. Gurdjieff

42. "I hate books; they only teach us to talk about what we don’t know."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, "Emile, or Education"

Other categories: Art and Culture

43. "Where facts are few, experts are many."

Donald R. Gannon

44. "If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them."

Isaac Asimov

Other categories: Question and Problem

45. "Empirical knowledge is exclusively a knowledge of probabilities."

Clarence Irving Lewis, "Mind and the World-Order"

46. "Knowledge is consciousness of reality. Reality is the sum of the laws that govern nature and of the causes from which they flow."

Egyptian proverb, (from ancient temple)

Other categories: Nature and Animals -:- Reality and Imagination

47. "Against logic there is no armor like ignorance."

Laurence J. Peter

Other categories: Intellect, Judgement

48. "It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated."

Alec Bourne

Other categories: Education

49. "As a general rule the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information."

Benjamin Disraeli

Other categories: Success and Fame

50. "Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge."

Audre Lorde

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