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Knowledge

Knowledge has a beginning but no end. – Geeta S. Iyengar

Knowledge is a sacred cow, and my problem will be how we can milk her while keeping clear of her horns. – Albert Szent-Györgyi, "Teaching and Expanding Knowledge," Science,

Knowledge is haunted by the ghost of past opinion. – Author Unknown

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak. – Michael Garrett Marino

One part of knowledge consists in being ignorant of such things as are not worthy to be known. – Crates

The greatest obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents and the ocean was not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge. – Daniel J. Boorstin, The Discoverers

Knowledge is the true organ of sight, not the eyes. – Panchatantra

Principles are the important things; the more you have of them, the more knowledge you can carry. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

We are here and now. Further than that, all knowledge is moonshine. – H.L. Mencken

If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions. – Susanne K. Langer

To be master of any branch of knowledge, you must master those which lie next to it; and thus to know anything you must know all. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Oftentimes the supposed increasers of knowledge have only given a new name, and a worse, to what every body knew before. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger? – Thomas Henry Huxley

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be. – Albert Einstein

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors. – Thomas Jefferson

I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way. – Thomas Jefferson

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it – this is knowledge. – Confucius

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge. – Khalil Gibran

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge. – Khalil Gibran