Knowledge Quotes - Page 19

• Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession -a property entirely our own.

  Samuel Smiles

  Possession, Labor, Property

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• Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

  Francis Picabia

  Errors, Youth, Ancient

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• ... you could claim that anything's real if the only basis for believing in it is that nobody's proved it doesn't exist!

  J. K. Rowling

  Real, Believe, Silly

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• You can live a lifetime and at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself.

  Beryl Markham

  People, Lifetime, Ends

  Beryl Markham (1994). “The Illustrated West with the Night”, Stewart, Tabori, & Chang

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• Every one is least known to himself, and it is very difficult for a man to know himself.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Men, Difficult, Knows

  "De Oratore (On the Orator)". Book by Marcus Tullius Cicero (Book III, Chapter 9), 55 BC.

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• Vitally important for a young man or woman is, first, to realize the value of education and then to cultivate earnestly, aggressively, ceaselessly, the habit of self-education.

  B. C. Forbes

  Wisdom, Men, Self

  B. C. Forbes (2005). “Keys to Success”, p.7, Lulu.com

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• The most that any of us know, is the least of that which is to be known.

  Benjamin Whichcote

  Knows, Known

  Benjamin Whichcote (1753). “Moral and religious aphorisms collected from the manuscript papers of the reverend and learned Doctor Whichcote; and published in 1703, by Dr. Jeffery. Now re-published, with very large additions, ... by Samuel Salter, ... To which are added, Eight letter”, p.48

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• Men are more readily contented with no intellectual light than with a little; and wherever they have been taught to acquire some knowledge in order to please others, they have most generally gone on to acquire more, to please themselves.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Men, Light, Order

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.247

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• Man is an ignoramus athirst for knowledge.

  Charles Wagner

  Men

  Charles Wagner (1905). “Justice”, W. Briggs

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• What you know is a club for yourself, and what you don't know is a meat-ax for the other fellow.

  George Horace Lorimer

  Meat, Clubs, Knows

  George Horace Lorimer (2016). “Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son”, p.56, Lulu.com

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• I ain't one of those who believe that a half knowledge of a subject is useless, but it has been my experience that when a fellow has that half knowledge he finds it's the other half which would really come in handy.

  George Horace Lorimer

  Believe, Half, Useless

  George Horace Lorimer (2016). “Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son”, p.55, Lulu.com

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• As each generation comes into the world devoid of knowledge, its first duty is to obtain possession of the stores already amassed. It must overtake its predecessors before it can pass by them.

  Horace Mann

  Generations, World, Firsts

  Horace Mann (1859). “Lectures on Various Subjects”

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• Can you avoid knowledge? You cannot! Can you avoid technology? You cannot! Things are going to go ahead in spite of ethics, in spite of your personal beliefs, in spite of everything.

  Jose Manuel Rodriguez Delgado

  Technology, Ethics, Belief

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• I don't believe. I know.

  Carl Jung

  Believe, Don't Believe, Knows

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• I know what I do not know.

  Socrates

  Knows

  "Apology". Book by Plato, 399 BC.

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• First come I; my name is Jowett. There's no knowledge but I know it. I am Master of this college: What I don't know isn't knowledge.

  Henry Beeching

  College, Names, Firsts

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• The dawn of knowledge is usually the false dawn.

  Bernard DeVoto

  Dawn

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• It is the vice of scholars to suppose that there is no knowledge in the world but that of books.

  William Hazlitt

  Book, Vices, World

  William Hazlitt (1836). “Literary Remains of the Late William Hazlitt: Essays: On self-love. On the conduct of life: or, Advice to a school-boy. On the fine arts. The fight. On want of money. On the feeling of immortality in youth. The main-chance. The opera. Of persons one would wish to have seen. My first acquaintance with poets. The shyness of scholars. The Vatican. On the spirit of monarchy”, p.91

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• Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Fun, Science, Technology

  "Working Profile; Helping the Library of Congress Fulfill Its Mission" by Barbara Gamarekian, archive.nytimes.com. July 8, 1983.

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• Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Art

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2630, Delphi Classics

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• There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.

  Oscar Wilde

  Success, Funny Thanksgiving, Two

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.819, GENERAL PRESS

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• If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation.

  Anais Nin

  Happiness, Fever, Proust

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• Between us, we cover all knowledge; he knows all that can be known and I know the rest.

  Mark Twain

  Knows, Known

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.117, Courier Corporation

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• You can never learn less; you can only learn more. The reason I know so much is because I have made so many mistakes.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Success, Sports, Mistake

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• I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Education, Knowing Who You Are, Ignorant

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