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In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real knowledge, it marks the first step in progress toward victory.
Author: Alfred North Whitehead
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It is far easier to know men than to know man.
Author: La Rochefoucauld
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It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance, for it requires knowledge to perceive it; and, therefore, he that can perceive it hath it not.
Author: Jeremy Taylor
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Know then thyself; presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.
Author: Alexander Pope
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The ancient sage who concocted the maxim, Know Thyself might have added, Don't Tell Anyone!
Author: H. F. Henrichs
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The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
Author: William James
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The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.
Author: Sterne
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The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Author: Cecil
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The greatest of fools is he who imposes on himself, and in greatest concern thinks certainly he knows that which he has least studied, and of which he is profoundly ignorant.
Author: Shaftesbury
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The last thing one knows is what to put first.
Author: Pascal
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The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.
Author: Thales
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The profoundly wise do not declaim against superficial knowledge in others, as much as the profoundly ignorant.
Author: Colton
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There is much pleasure to be gained in useless knowledge.
Author: Bertrand Russell
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There are things on heaven and earth, Horatio, Man was not meant to know.
Author: Hamlet
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The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to remount first principles, and to take nobody's word about them.
Author: Bolingbroke
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The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.
Author: Samuel Johnson
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Through zeal, knowledge is gotten, through lack of zeal, knowledge is lost; let a man who knows the double path of gain and loss thus place himself that knowledge may grow.
Author: Buddha
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We can be Knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.
Author: Michel de Montaigne
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What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.
Author: George Bernard Shaw
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Wisdom and knowledge decrease in inverse proportion to age.
Author: William J. Lynott
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Wisdom is considered a sign of weakness by the powerful because a wise man can lead without power but only a powerful man can lead without wisdom.
Author: Mark B. Cohen
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Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning ... and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Author: Bergen Evans
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An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less.
Author: Nicholas Murray Butler
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Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
Author: Pope Julius III
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He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that.
Author: John Stuart Mill
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People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
Author: Jean Jacques Rousseau
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It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing.
Author: Seneca
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It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
Author: James Thurber
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The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.
Author: Jean Rostand
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To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.
Author: Olin Miller
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The secret of contentment is knowing how to enjoy what you have, and to be able to lose all desire for things beyond your reach.
Author: Lin Yutang
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The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of in illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land.
Author: T. H. Huxley
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He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.
Author: Chinese Proverb
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If a man's faith is unstable and his peace of mind troubled, his knowledge will not be perfect..
Author: Dhammapada
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A man has only so much knowledge as he puts to work.
Author: St. Francis of Assisi
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Knowledge without religion will no more sanctify than painted fire will burn, or the sight of water cleanse.
Author: John A. O'Brien
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We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.
Author: John A. Wheeler
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Knowledge is the wing whereby we fly to Heaven.
Author: William Shakespeare
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He that has more knowledge than judgement, is made for another man's use more than his own.
Author: William Penn
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Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.
Author: Kahlil Gibran
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Information is not knowledge.
Author: Albert Einstein
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Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
Author: Henry Ford
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