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Quotes About Knowledge

... I prefer true but imperfect knowledge, even if it leaves much undetermined and unpredictable, to a pretense of exact knowledge that is likely to be false.
~ Friedrich August von Hayek
There is joy in the search for knowledge about the universe in all its manifestations.
~ janet asimov
Knowledge without devotion to God produces hatred.
~ Sathya Sai Baba
You can seek advice, learn about the options and make choices that are right for you. Knowledge is power.
~ Angelina Jolie
Wine snobbery, of course, is part showmanship, part sophistication, part knowledge, and part bluff
~ Leonard Bernstein
Imagination Is More Powerful Than Knowledge Because Knowledhe Is Limited But Imagination Is Without Boundaries
~ Albert Einstein
Arithmetic is a kind of knowledge in which the best natures should be trained, and which must not be given up.
~ Plato
It must certainly be more dangerous to live in ignorance than to live with knowledge.
~ Frank Herbert
All explicit knowledge is translated knowledge, and all translation is imperfect.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
But in the new (math) approach, the important thing is to understand what you're doing, rather than to get the right answer.
~ Tom Lehrer
The compass of accurate knowledge directs the shortest, safest, cheapest course to any destination
~ Claude C. Hopkins
The library should be a commonplace to every one. To use it should be as natural when one needs news or knowledge, fiction or fact, as it is to use the trolley when one needs transportation.
~ John Cotton Dana
These will vary in every human being; but knowledge is the same for every mind, and every mind may and ought to be trained to receive it.
~ Frances Wright
All other knowledge is hurtful to him who has not honesty and good-nature
~ Michel de Montaigne
There is no knowledge without risk taking.
~ Terence McKenna
The cultivated person's first duty is to be always prepared to rewrite the encyclopedia.
~ Umberto Eco
Seeking is a necessary preliminary to finding, and one who cannot endure the hardship of inquiry cannot expect to harvest the fruit of knowledge.
~ John of Salisbury
Partial knowledge is more triumphant than complete knowledge; it takes things to be simpler than they are, and so makes its theory more popular and convincing.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
When your goal is to gain experience, perspective, and knowledge, failure is no longer a possibility
~ Sophia Amoruso
Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
Practice provides the rails on which knowledge flows.
~ John Seely Brown
O human creature,you are the investigator without knowledge, the magistrate without jurisdiction, and all in all, the fool of the farce.
~ Michel de Montaigne
A knowledge of and the ability to properly and quickly execute the fundamentals. Be prepared and cover every little detail.
~ John Wooden
Fear is where the information is.
~ Sally Field