Quotes on Knowledge
The trouble with people is not that they don't know but that they know so much that ain't so.
Josh Billings
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We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
Thomas Alva Edison
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Doubt and fear are the great enemies of knowledge.
James Allen
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The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.
Daniel Boorstin
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To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.
Benjamin Disraeli
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Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form correct judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.
Calvin Coolidge
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An expert is a man who knows just that much more about his subject than his associates. Most of us are nearer the top than we think. We fail to realize how easy it is, how necessary it is to learn that fraction more.
William Hutchin
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The proof that you know something is that you are able to teach it.
Aristotle
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Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
Samuel Johnson
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To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
Marilyn vos Savant
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General knowledge, no matter how great in quantity or variety it may be, is of but little use in the accumulation of money. The faculties of the great universities possess, in the aggregate, practically every form of general knowledge known to civilization. Most of the professors have but little money. They specialize on teaching knowledge, but they do not specialize on the organization, or the use of knowledge.
Napoleon Hill
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Fools act on imagination without knowledge; pedants act on knowledge without imagination.
Alfred Whitehead
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When you first start to study a field, it seems like you have to memorize a zillion things. You don't. What you need is to identify the core principles - generally three to twelve of them - that govern the field. The million things you thought you had to memorize are simply various combinations of the core principles.
John T. Reed
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There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about.
John Von Neumann
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The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance. It is the illusion of knowledge.
Stephen Hawking
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An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.
Anatole France
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Watch out for people who think it's embarrassing not to know.
Ray Dalio
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Ask yourself whether you have earned the right to have an opinion. Opinions are easy to produce, so bad ones abound. Knowing that you don't know something is nearly as valuable as knowing it. The worst situation is thinking you know something when you don't.
Ray Dalio
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While everyone has the right to have questions and theories, only believable people have the right to have opinions. If you can't successfully ski down a difficult slope, you shouldn't tell others how to do it, though you can ask questions about it and even express your views about possible ways if you make clear that you are unsure.
Ray Dalio
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It's frightening to think that you might not know something, but more frightening to think that, by and large, the world is run by people who have faith that they know exactly what is going on.
Amos Tversky
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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
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Some people say, “How can you live without knowing?†I do not know what they mean. I always live without knowing. That is easy. How you get to know is what I want to know.
Richard Feynman
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