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Quotes About Knowledge

As known unknowns become known; unknown unknowns proliferate; the larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.
~ Huston Smith
The pathway to enlightenment leads to states of ecstasy, knowledge, and a pretty ironic sense of humor.
~ Frederick Lenz
If we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself.
~ Plato
Knowledge without devotion will be like a misfire.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
The knowledge and skills you have achieved are meant to be forgotten so you can float comfortably in emptiness, without obstruction.
~ Bruce Lee
A wise ignorance is an essential part of knowledge.
~ Plato
In an honest search for knowledge, you quite often have to abide by ignorance for an indefinite period.
~ Erwin Schrodinger
How imperfect is all our knowledge!
~ John Donne
The only real ill-doing is the deprivation of knowledge.
~ Plato
I would like the world to remember me as the guy who really enjoyed playing games and sharing his knowledge and his fun pastimes with everybody else.
~ Gary Gygax
Those who know it do not speak about it. Those who speak about it do not know it.
~ Laozi
I die with a joyful heart in the knowledge of our infinite achievements and of a contribution unique in the history that bears my name.
~ Adolf Hitler
Our faith gives us knowledge of something better.
~ E. F. Schumacher
Everyone has a transferable commodity-knowledge. Sharing your unique expertise and making introductions for someone creates a lasting legacy.
~ Marsha Blackburn
In any influence, will, a self, the ego, the I AM is the greater force to be dealt with, but as numbers do influence, a knowledge of same certainly gives an individual a foresight into relationships.
~ Edgar Cayce
Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
The development of general ability for independent thinking and judgment should always be placed foremost, not the acquisition of special knowledge.
~ Albert Einstein
Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.
~ Aldous Huxley
Better know nothing than half-know many things.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Either we shall find what it is we are seeking or at least we shall free ourselves from the persuasion that we know what we do not know.
~ Plato, The Republic
The knowledge that makes us cherish innocence makes innocence unattainable.
~ Irving Howe
I have always thirsted for knowledge, I have always been full of questions.
~ Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.
~ Ezra Pound
A little knowledge OF God is worth more than a great deal of knowledge ABOUT him.
~ J. I. Packer