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Quotes About Knowledge

Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.
~ William Safire
Knowing how things work is the basis for appreciation, and is thus a source of civilized delight.
~ William Safire
Doctors don't know everything really. They understand matter, not spirit. And you and I live in the spirit.
~ William Saroyan
What can I tell you, except the stupid little I know?
~ William Saroyan
I am enormously wise and abysmally ignorant
~ William Saroyan
Think without any dishonesty. 2. Forge yourself in the Way. 3. Touch upon all of the arts. 4. Know the Ways of all occupations. 5. Know the advantages and disadvantages of everything. 6. Develop a discerning eye in all matters. 7. Understand what cannot be seen by the eye. 8. Pay attention to even small things. 9. Do not involve yourself with the impractical.
~ William Scott Wilson
And at ten, or whatever time, in the morning we had the press conference, what we knew is there had been an incident at Three Mile Island, that it was shut down, that there was water that had escaped but it was contained.
~ William Scranton
There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophies
~ William Shakespeare
I say there is no darkness but ignorance.
~ William Shakespeare
It is a wise father that knows his own child.
~ William Shakespeare
He reads much;He is a great observer, and he looksQuite through the deeds of men.
~ William Shakespeare
The bookish theoric.
~ William Shakespeare
Thou art a scholar; speak to it, Horatio.
~ William Shakespeare
That unlettered small-knowing soul.
~ William Shakespeare
Greatness knows itself.
~ William Shakespeare
I am Sir Oracle,And when I ope my lips let no dog bark!
~ William Shakespeare
Of what men dare do! what men may do! what men daily do, not knowing what they do!
~ William Shakespeare
Light seeking light doth light of light beguile.
~ William Shakespeare
An unlesson'd girl, unschool'd, unpractic'd;Happy in this, she is not yet so oldBut she may learn.
~ William Shakespeare
Journeys end in lovers meeting,Every wise man's son doth know.
~ William Shakespeare
Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me,From mine own library with volumes thatI prize above my dukedom.
~ William Shakespeare
Young in limbs, in judgment old.
~ William Shakespeare
As the old hermit of Prague, that never saw pen and ink, very wittily said to a niece of King Gorboduc, "That, that is, is."
~ William Shakespeare
I do know of these,That therefore only are reputed wiseFor saying nothing.
~ William Shakespeare