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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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

“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

“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

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

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

“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

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

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

“Those who know do not speak; Those who speak do not know.” Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

“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

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

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

“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

“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

“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

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

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

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

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

“Those truths which we know are very few in comparison with those which we do not know.” Galileo Galilei, Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina of Tuscany

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

“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

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

“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

“His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge. Of contemporary literature, philosophy and politics he appeared to know next to nothing.” Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet

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

“But I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason and intellect has intended us to forego their use and by some other means to give us knowledge which we can attain by them.” Galileo Galilei, Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina of Tuscany

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

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

“All our knowledge begins with sense, proceeds thence to understanding, and ends with reason, beyond which nothing higher can be discovered in the human mind for elaborating the matter of intuition and subjecting it to the highest unity of thought.” Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason

“You have to know the past to understand the present.” Carl Sagan, Cosmos

“The best books . . . are those that tell you what you know already.” George Orwell, 1984

“To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel, that discernment is but a hand playing with finely ordered variety on the chords of emotion—a soul in which knowledge passes...” George Eliot, Middlemarch

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

“They seemed to forget that the increase of known truths stimulates the investigation, establishment, and growth of the arts; not their diminution or destruction.” Galileo Galilei, Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina of Tuscany

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

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

“It is one of the triumphs of the human that he can know a thing and still not believe it.” John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“It is pleasant to observe by what regular gradations we surmount the force of local prejudice, as we enlarge our acquaintance with the world.” Thomas Paine, Common Sense

“I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly; but I don't see any chance of it just at present.” Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

“Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used, till they are seasoned.” Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table

“Who indeed will set bounds to human ingenuity? Who will assert that everything in the universe capable of being perceived is already discovered and known?” Galileo Galilei, Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina of Tuscany

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