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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

“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”

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

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

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

“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

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

“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

“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

“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

“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

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

“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

“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”

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“Within the extent of your knowledge, . . . you are right.” Ayn Rand, “Atlas Shrugged” - 1957

“The pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, an almost fanatical love of justice, and the desire for personal independence—these are the features of the Jewish tradition which make me thank my stars that I belong to it.” Albert Einstein, “The world as I see it” - 1949

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

“The great steps in its progress have been made, are made, and will be made, by men who seek knowledge simply because they crave for it.” Thomas Henry Huxley, “The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century” - 1887

“That’s the trouble with you young people . . . You think because you ain’t been here long, you know everything. In my life I already forget more than you ever know. ” Neil Gaiman, “Anansi Boys” - 2005

“But with regard to those few which the human intellect does understand, I believe that its knowledge equals the Divine in objective certainty, for here it succeeds in understanding necessity, beyond which there can be no greater sureness.” Galileo Galilei, “Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems” - 1632

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

“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” - 1791

“That which knows all things and is known by none is the subject.” Arthur Schopenhauer, “The World as Will and Representation” - 1819

“All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions.” Leonardo da Vinci, “The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci” - 1478 – 1519

“There is no study better fitted than that of geology to impress upon men of general culture that conviction of the unbroken sequence of the order of natural phenomena, throughout the duration of the universe, which is the great, and perhaps the...” Thomas Henry Huxley, “The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century” - 1887

“And this same knowledge extends likewise to all other things which I recollect having formerly demonstrated, such as the truths of geometry and the like; for what can be alleged against them to cause me to place them in doubt?” René Descartes, “Meditations on First Philosophy” - 1641

“So all a man could win in the conflict between plague and life was knowledge and memories.” Albert Camus, “The Plague” - 1947

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

“it was not knowledge but unity that she desired, not inscriptions on tablets, nothing that could be written in any language known to men, but intimacy itself, which is knowledge” Virginia Woolf, “To the Lighthouse” - 1927

“Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.” William James, “The Varieties of Religious Experience” - 1902

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