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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

“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”

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

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

“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

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

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

“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

“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

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

“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

“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

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

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

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

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

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

“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

“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

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

“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”

“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

“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

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

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

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

“That is, what can we be sure we know, or sure that we know we knew it, if indeed it is at all knowable. Or have we simply forgotten it and are too embarrassed to say anything?” Woody Allen, “Getting Even” - 1971

“Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.” Oscar Wilde, “Intentions” - 1891

“The more you know the more unhappy you are.” Henry James, “The Portrait of a Lady” - 1881

“One may know how to conquer without being able to do it.” Sun Tzu, “The Art of War” - 5th century BC

“God knows better than we what we need.” Victor Hugo, “Les Misérables” - 1862

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

“And, in fine, of false sciences I thought I knew the worth sufficiently to escape being deceived by the professions of an alchemist, the predictions of an astrologer, the impostures of a magician, or by the artifices and boasting of any of those...” René Descartes, “Discourse on the Method” - 1637

“For the knowledge of God is to all creatures what the knowledge of the artificer is to things made by his art.” Thomas Aquinas, “Summa Theologica” - 1274

“The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies, but also to hate his friends.” Friedrich Nietzsche, “Thus Spoke Zarathustra” - 1891

“But my later experience has taught me two lessons: first, that things are seen plainer after the events have occurred; second, that the most confident critics are generally those who know the least about the matter criticised.” Ulysses S. Grant, “Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant” - 1885

“If you know the enemy and know yourself, your victory will not stand in doubt; if you know Heaven and know Earth, you may make your victory complete.” Sun Tzu, “The Art of War” - 5th century BC

“But, though all our knowledge begins with experience, it by no means follows that all arises out of experience.” Immanuel Kant, “Critique of Pure Reason” - 1791

“Knowledge would be fatal. It is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things wonderful.” Oscar Wilde, “The Picture of Dorian Gray” - 1890

“Of what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to the mind when it has once seized on it like a lichen on the rock.” Mary Shelley, “Frankenstein” - 1818

“If you still don't like it, that's OK: that's why I'm boss. I simply know better than you do.” Linus Torvalds - 1996

“it is the view of the Ministry that a theoretical knowledge will be more than sufficient to get you through your examination, which, after all, is what school is all about.” J. K. Rowling, “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix” - 2003

“you can find fresh pain every time you discover what you pretty much already know.” Chuck Palahniuk, “Diary” - 2003

“If you were asked to prove that two and two made four, you might find some difficulty, and yet you are quite sure of the fact.” Arthur Conan Doyle, “A Study in Scarlet” - 1887

“All we can know is that we know nothing.” Leo Tolstoy, “War and Peace” - 1869

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

“Whoever cannot seek the unforeseen sees nothing, for the known way is an impasse.” Heraclitus, “On Nature” - c. 535 – c. 475 BCE

“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

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