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There are four kinds of people, three of which are to be avoided
and the fourth cultivated: those who don't know that they don't
know; those who know that they don't know; those who don't know
that they know; and those who know that they know.
Author: Unattributed Author
Source: rendering of an Arab proverb
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Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and
essentially raises one man above another.
Author: Joseph Addison
Source: in the "Guardian", no. 111, Letter of Alexander to Aristotle
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Yet all that I have learn'd (hugh toyles now past)
By long experience, and in famous schooles,
Is but to know my ignorance at last,
Who think themselves most wise are greatest fools.
Author: William Alexander, Earl of Stirling
Source: Recreation with the Muses (London, fol. 1637, p. 7)
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Knowledge is power.
Author: William Alexander, Earl of Stirling
Source: Recreation with the Muses (London, fol. 1637, p. 7)
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For all knowledge and wonder (which is the seed of knowledge) is
an impression of pleasure in itself.
Author: Francis Bacon
Source: Advancement of Learning (bk. I)
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Knowledge and human power are synonymous, since the ignorance of
the cause frustrates the effect.
Author: Francis Bacon
Source: Aphorism III
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Knowledge bloweth up, but charity buildeth up.
Author: Francis Bacon
Source: Rendering of I Cor. VIII (I)
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For knowledge, too, is itself a power.
[Lat., Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est.]
Author: Francis Bacon
Source: Treatise--De Hoeresiis
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But thou, O daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to
the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge
shall be increased.
Author: Bible
Source: Daniel (ch. XII, v. 4)
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For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth
knowledge increaseth sorrow.
Author: Bible
Source: Ecclesiastes (ch. I, v. 18)
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He that hath knowledge spareth his words: and a man of
understanding is of an excellent spirit.
Author: Bible
Source: Proverbs (ch. XVII, v. 27)
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I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon me.
Author: Bible
Source: Psalms (ch. XXII, v. 17)
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I know too much to be conservative or liberal.
Author: Bible
Source: Psalms (ch. XXII, v. 17)
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Pursuit of knowledge under difficulties.
Author: Lord Henry Peter Brougham (Brougham and vaux)
Source: title he gave to a book published under superintendence of the Society of Useful Knowledge
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Men are four:
He who knows not and knows not he knows not, he is a fool--shun
him;
He who knows not and knows he knows not, he is simple--teach him;
He who knows and knows not he knows, he is asleep--wake him;
He who knows and knows he knows, hi is wise--follow him!
Author: Lady Burton
Source: given as an Arabian proverb
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He knew what's what, and that's as high
As metaphysic wit can fly.
Author: Samuel Butler (1)
Source: Hudibras (pt. I, canto I, l. 149)
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Deep sighted in intelligence,
Ideas, atoms, influences.
Author: Samuel Butler (1)
Source: Hudibras (pt. I, canto I, l. 533)
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Nor do I know what is become
Of him, more than the Pope of Rome.
Author: Samuel Butler (1)
Source: Hudibras (pt. I, canto III, l. 263)
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He knew whats'ever 's to be known,
But much more than he knew would own.
Author: Samuel Butler (1)
Source: Hudibras (pt. II, canto III, l. 297)
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The tree of knowledge is not that of life.
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: Manfred (act I, sc. 1)
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Knowledge is not happiness, and science
But an exchange of ignorance for that
Which is another kind of ignorance.
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: Manfred (act II, sc. 4)
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There's lots of people--this town wouldn't hold them;
Who don't know much excepting what's told them.
Author: Will Carleton
Source: City Ballads (p. 143)
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What is all Knowledge too but recorded Experience, and a product
of History; of which, therefore, Reasoning and Belief, no less
than Action and Passion, are essential materials?
Author: Thomas Carlyle
Source: Essays (On History)
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For love is ever the beginning of Knowledge, as fire is of light.
Author: Thomas Carlyle
Source: Essays--Death of Goethe
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Not only is that an art in knowing a thing, but also a certain
art in teaching it.
[Lat., Nam non solum scire aliquid, artis est, sed quaedam ars
etiam docendi.]
Author: Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Source: De Legibus (II, 19)
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Knowledge is power.
Author: Francis Bacon
Source: None
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Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
Author: Confucius
Source: None
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There is much pleasure ot be gained from useless knowledge.
Author: Bertrand Russell
Source: None
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If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.
Author: Rev. Jesse Jackson
Source: None
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A President's hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.
Author: Lyndon Baines Johnson
Source: None
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I am not young enough to know everything.
Author: Sir J.M. Barrie
Source: None
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I do not believe...I know.
Author: Carl Jung
Source: None
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I am an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on the way.
Author: Carl Sandburg
Source: None
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In Examinations those who do now wish to know ask questions of those who cannot tell.
Author: Sir Walter Raleigh
Source: None
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I don't know very much, but what I do know, I know better than anybody else and I don't want to argue about it... A mind is not a bed to be made and re-made.
Author: James Agate
Source: None
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All I know is what I read in the papers.
Author: Will Rogers
Source: None
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Women...are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.
Author: James Stephens
Source: None
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You know more than you think you do.
Author: Benjamin Spock
Source: None
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A king that would not feel his crown too heavy for him, must wear it every day; but if he think it too light, he knoweth not of what metal it is made.
Author: Bacon
Source: None
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A man is never astonished that he doesn't know what another does, but he is surprised at the gross ignorance of the other in not knowing what he does.
Author: Haliburton
Source: None
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A man who knows the world will not only make the most of everything he does know, but of many things that he does not know; and will gain more credit by his adroit mode of hiding his ignorance than the pendant by his awkward attempt to exhibit his erudition.
Author: Colton
Source: None
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Blessed is he who has reached the point of no return and knows it, for he shall enjoy living.
Author: W. C. Bennett
Source: None
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Forecasters tend to learn less and less about more and more, until in the end they know nothing about everything.
Author: Edgar R. Fiedler
Source: None
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From the time we first begin to know, We live and learn, but not the wiser grow.
Author: Pomfret
Source: None
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God will not suffer man to have the knowledge of things to come; for if he had prescience of his prosperity he would be careless; and understanding of his adversity he would be senseless.
Author: St. Augustine
Source: None
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Half of being smart is knowing what you're dumb at.
Author: Solomon Short
Source: None
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Hypotheses multiply so as to fill the gaps in factual knowledge concerning biological phenomena.
Author: James D. Regan
Source: None
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I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
Author: Socrates
Source: None
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If you have to ask, you're not entitled to know.
Author: Charles C. Abbott
Source: None
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If you're confident after you've just finished an exam, it's because you don't know enough to know better.
Author: Jay Weisman
Source: None
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