Knowledge Quotes - Page 8

• Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.

  William Ellery Channing

  Ignorance, Fate, Growth

  William Ellery Channing (1843). “The Works of William E. Channing”, p.160

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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 know and what you don't.

  Anatole France

  Education, Memories, Learning

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• There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

  Bertrand Russell

  Useless, Pleasure, Learning Knowledge

  "In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays". Book by Bertrand Russell, Ch. 2: 'Useless' Knowledge, 1935.

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• Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  True Friend, Betrayed, Shouting

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• All schools, all colleges, have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal, valuable knowledge. The theological knowledge which they conceal cannot justly be regarded as less valuable than that which they reveal. That is, when a man is buying a basket of strawberries it can profit him to know that the bottom half of it is rotten.

  Mark Twain

  Religious, Educational, School

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.222, Courier Corporation

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• A little learning is a dangerous thing.

  Alexander Pope

  Education, Learning, Intelligence

  An Essay on Criticism l. 215 (1711) See Drayton 2

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• He who repeats what he does not understand is no better than an ass that is loaded with books.

  Khalil Gibran

  Book, Doe, Ass

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• We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.

  H. L. Mencken

  Inspirational, Drinking, Religion

  "A Mencken chrestomathy". Book by Henry Louis Mencken, 1949.

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• He who thinks he knows, doesn't know. He who knows that he doesn't know, knows.

  Joseph Campbell

  Ignorance, Thinking, Limits

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.65, Anchor

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• You can't know too much, but you can say too much.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Too Much, Knows

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• The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

  Nadia Boulanger

  Love, Inspirational, Work

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It is not enough to have knowledge; one must apply it. It is not enough to have wishes; one must also accomplish it.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Wish, Enough, Accomplish

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• Diffused knowledge immortalizes itself.

  James Mackintosh

  Self Knowledge

  James Mackintosh (1791). “Vindiciae Gallicae”, p.199

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• Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Funny, Education, Teacher

  "A Case of Hypochondria". Newsweek, July 6, 1970.

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• The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

  William James

  Positive, Wise, Wisdom

  Principles of Psychology (1890) vol. 2, ch. 22

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• The best prescription is knowledge.

  C. Everett Koop

  Health, Personal Growth, Surgeons

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• One of the ways to learn is to know when you're making failures.

  Robert Genn

  Way, Knows

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• Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

  Horace Mann

  Humans, Human Power, Knowledge Is Power

  Horace Mann (1840). “Lecture on education”, p.58

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• The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.

  John Locke

  Education, Wisdom, Philosophical

  Some Thoughts Concerning Education sec. 88 (1693)

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• Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

  Samuel Johnson

  Inspirational, Teaching, Learning

  Quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) (entry for 18 Apr. 1775)

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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

  Wise, Spiritual, Science

  Confucius (2012). “The Analects of Confucius In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide”, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates.

  Abbott Lawrence Lowell

  Funny, Cute, Graduation

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• Knowledge is a mimic creation.

  Horace Mann

  Creation

  Horace Mann (1872). “Thoughts Selected from the Writings of Horace Mann ...”, p.236

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• We live what we know. If we believe the universe and ourselves to be mechanical, we will live mechanically. On the other hand, if we know that we are part of an open universe, and that our minds are a matrix of reality, we will live more creatively and powerfully.

  Marilyn Ferguson

  Believe, Reality, Hands

  Marilyn Ferguson (1987). “The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980s”, Tarcher

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• He knows so little and knows it so fluently.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Sarcastic, Littles, Knows

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