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

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

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

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

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

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

“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”

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

“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

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

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

“You have to know the past to understand the present.” Carl Sagan, “Cosmos” - 1980

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

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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“It is not easy to determine the nature of music, or why any one should have a knowledge of it.” Aristotle, “Politics”

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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“There is no desire more natural than that of knowledge.” Michel de Montaigne, “The Essays of Michel de Montaigne” - 1580

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

“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

“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” - 1615

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

“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

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

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

“Only in education, never in the life of farmer, sailor, merchant, physician, or laboratory experimenter, does knowledge mean primarily a store of information aloof from doing.” John Dewey, “Democracy and Education” - 1916

“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

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

“The best books . . . are those that tell you what you know already.” George Orwell, “1984” - 1949

“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

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

“No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.” John Steinbeck, “The Winter of Our Discontent” - 1961

“I don't know what good it is to know so much and be smart as whips and all if it doesn't make you happy.” J. D. Salinger, “Franny and Zooey” - 1961

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

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

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

“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

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

“knowledge should lead to wisdom, and . . . if it doesn't, it's just a disgusting waste of time!” J. D. Salinger, “Franny and Zooey” - 1961

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

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