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Knowledge

Where is all the knowledge we lost with information? – T. S. Eliot

Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge. – Leonardo da Vinci

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them. – Isaac Asimov

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know – and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. – Isaac Asimov

I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement. – Peter Drucker

The true method of knowledge is experiment. – William Blake

Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire. – William Penn

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge it is thinking that makes what we read ours. – John Locke

As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself. – Arthur Schopenhauer

The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance. – Herodotus

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it. – Samuel Johnson

Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with. – Robert Staughton Lynd

I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions. – Plutarch

I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief. – Immanuel Kant

Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile. – Abu Bakr

This life that has been given to us as a gift, as such a precious gift. To really try to understand it, really try to recognize it, is the greatest meditation. Through the media of this Knowledge we can tap into our inner sources that are so beautiful. – Prem Rawat

Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite. – Karl Popper

Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge. – Dante Alighieri