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“No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.” John Locke, “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding” - 1689

“My wealth is in my knowledge of self, love, and spirituality.” Muhammad Ali, “The Soul of a Butterfly” - 2004

“there is no darkness but ignorance;” William Shakespeare, “Twelfth Night” - 1623

“You can't learn a science unless you know what it's all about.” Aldous Huxley, “Brave New World” - 1932

“Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.” Samuel Johnson, “The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia” - 1759

“People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.” Jean-Jacques Rousseau, “Emile, or On Education” - 1762

“The fact is, that the public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.” Oscar Wilde, “The Soul of Man under Socialism” - 1891

“we know what we are, but know not what we may be.” William Shakespeare, “Hamlet” - 1623

“She said that I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of a lack of knowledge.” Maya Angelou, “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” - 1969

“Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.” Plato, “The Republic”

“Those who know do not speak; Those who speak do not know.” Lao Tzu, “Tao Te Ching” - 4th century BC

“nothing is so firmly believed, as what we least know;” Michel de Montaigne, “The Essays of Michel de Montaigne” - 1580

“FAITH, n. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.” Ambrose Bierce, “The Devil's Dictionary” - 1911

“RELIGION, n. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.” Ambrose Bierce, “The Devil's Dictionary” - 1911

“Knowledge comes from a source, from an accumulation, from a conclusion, while knowing is a movement.” Bruce Lee, “Tao of Jeet Kune Do” - 1975

“Experience is the only thing that brings knowledge, and the longer you are on earth the more experience you are sure to get.” L. Frank Baum, “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” - 1900

“I realized that I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss.” Maya Angelou, “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” - 1969

“Learn from me, if not by my precepts, at least by my example, how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who aspires to become greater than his nature will...” Mary Shelley, “Frankenstein” - 1818

“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, “Analects”

“That all our knowledge begins with experience there can be no doubt.” Immanuel Kant, “Critique of Pure Reason” - 1791

“I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn't know.” Mark Twain, “Life on the Mississippi” - 1883

“To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.” Anatole France, “The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard” - 1881

“our goal is nothing less than a complete description of the universe we live in.” Stephen Hawking, “A Brief History of Time” - 1988

“Time, and Industry, produce every day new knowledge.” Thomas Hobbes, “Leviathan” - 1651

“Information and knowledge: two currencies that have never gone out of style.” Neil Gaiman, “American Gods” - 2001

“He who cannot lie, doth not know what truth is.” Friedrich Nietzsche, “Thus Spoke Zarathustra” - 1891

“While you do not know life, how can you know about death?” Confucius, “Analects”

“Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know men.” Confucius, “Analects”

“The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.” Sigmund Freud, “The Interpretation of Dreams” - 1899

“the further one travels the less one knows.” Lao Tzu, “Tao Te Ching”

“And seeing ignorance is the curse of God, Knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven, Unless you be possess'd with devilish spirits, You cannot but forbear to murder me:” William Shakespeare, “Henry VI, Part 2” - 1623

“The Register of Knowledge Of Fact is called History.” Thomas Hobbes, “Leviathan” - 1651

“The wise speak only of what they know” J. R. R. Tolkien, “The Two Towers” - 1954

“Our business here is not to know all things, but those which concern our conduct.” John Locke, “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding” - 1689

“Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.” Blaise Pascal, “Pensées” - 1670

“And, of course, men know best about everything, except what women know better.” George Eliot, “Middlemarch” - 1872

“Remember, my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker.” Bram Stoker, “Dracula” - 1897

“Is there any knowledge in the world which is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?” Bertrand Russell, “The Problems of Philosophy” - 1912

“I always thirsted for knowledge, I have always been full of questions.” Hermann Hesse, “Siddhartha” - 1922

“His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even centaurs’ knowledge, was foolproof.” J. K. Rowling, “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix” - 2003

“That the knowledge at which geometry aims is knowledge of the eternal, and not of aught perishing and transient.” Plato, “The Republic”

“it is far better to know something about everything than to know all about one thing.” Blaise Pascal, “Pensées” - 1670

“They who know the truth are not equal to those who love it, and they who love it are not equal to those who delight in it.” Confucius, “Analects”

“All the knowledge I possess every one else can acquire, but my heart is exclusively my own.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, “The Sorrows of Young Werther” - 1774

“I been in places hot as pitch, and mates dropping round with Yellow Jack, and the blessed land a-heaving like the sea with earthquakes—what to the doctor know of lands like that?” Robert Louis Stevenson, “Treasure Island” - 1883

“The world is perishing for lack of the knowledge of God and the Church is famishing for want of His Presence.” A. W. Tozer, “The Pursuit of God” - 1948

“Every action needs to be prompted by a motive. To know and to will are two operations of the human mind. Discerning, judging, deliberating are acts of the human mind.” Leonardo da Vinci, “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci” - 1478 – 1519

“If you know you are yourself, you know that you are not somebody else; but do you know that you are yourself?” George MacDonald, “Lilith” - 1895

“I like to make use of what I know.” Franz Kafka, “The Trial” - 1925

“It is again a strong proof of men knowing most things before birth, that when mere children they grasp innumerable facts with such speed as to show that they are not then taking them in for the first time, but remembering and recalling them.” Marcus Tullius Cicero, “On Old Age” - 44 BC

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