Knowledge - Quotes and Proverbs

Do you know too much or too little? You will know after reading these quotes and proverbs about knowledge.

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A generalist knows nothing about everything.
A specialist knows everything about nothing.
I know nothing about nothing.

Minkukel

A little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing.

A small amount of knowledge may cause you to make invalid conclusions.

A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

Jane Austen

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

Albert Einstein

Art completes what nature cannot bring to finish. The artist gives us knowledge of nature's unrealized ends.

Aristotle

Belief means not wanting to know what is true.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition in knowledge you forget something that you knew before.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Source: A Study in Scarlet
Quoted: Sherlock Holmes

Education is only a ladder to gather fruit from the tree of knowledge, not the fruit itself.

Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other people. The specialist knows more and more about less and less and finally knows everything about nothing.

Konrad Lorenz

Everything that is not forbidden by laws of nature is achievable, given the right knowledge.

David Deutsch

Experience is the mother of knowledge.

For all their foolishness, modern societies have been getting smarter, and all things being equal, a smarter world is a less violent world.

Steven Pinker

He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that.

John Stuart Mill

He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.

Laozi

His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Source: A Study in Scarlet

How do I know what I think until I hear what I say?

Francis Crick

How do you know that you know the stuff you think you know?

(unknown author)

Human knowledge will be erased from the world's archives before we possess the last word that a gnat has to say to us.

Henri Fabre

Humor and knowledge are the two great hopes of our culture.

Konrad Lorenz

I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

Socrates

I read it in a book.

Samwell Tarly

If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

Mao Tse-Tung

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.

Charles Darwin
Source: The Descent of Man

Ignorance, to a scientist, is an itch that begs to be pleasurably scratched.

Christopher Hitchens

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

Albert Einstein

In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.

George Herbert

Information is not knowledge.

Albert Einstein

Intelligence is required to be able to know that a man knows not.

Michel de Montaigne

It is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.

Charles Darwin
Source: The Descent of Man

It isn't knowledge, it's ignorance that - as we've been beautifully told - is bliss.

Elizabeth Gaskell
Source: Victorian Short Stories, Vol. 2

Knowledge in youth is wisdom in age.

Early experiences will be very valuable later.

Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit; Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.

Knowledge is like a garden: if it is not cultivated, it cannot be harvested.

Knowledge is not wisdom.

(unknown author)

Knowledge is power.

Knowledge of the world is derived by observation, experimentation, and rational analysis.

American Humanist Association
Source: Humanism and Its Aspirations

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.

Jimi Hendrix

Life is better than death, health is better than sickness, abundance is better than want, freedom is better than coercion, happiness is better than suffering, and knowledge is better than superstition and ignorance.

Steven Pinker

One has no right to love or hate anything if one has not acquired a thorough knowledge of its nature.

Leonardo da Vinci

Our ignorance can be divided into problems and mysteries. When we face a problem, we may not know its solution, but we have insight, increasing knowledge, and an inkling of what we are looking for. When we face a mystery, however, we can only stare in wonder and bewilderment, not knowing what an explanation would even look like.

Noam Chomsky

People can believe in evolution without understanding it, and vice versa.

Steven Pinker
Source: Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress

Philosophers are people who know less and less about more and more, until they know nothing about everything. Scientists are people who know more and more about less and less, until they know everything about nothing.

Konrad Lorenz