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.
MinkukelA specialist knows everything about nothing.
I know nothing about nothing.
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 AustenAny man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
Albert EinsteinArt completes what nature cannot bring to finish. The artist gives us knowledge of nature's unrealized ends.
AristotleBelief means not wanting to know what is true.
Friedrich Wilhelm NietzscheDepend upon it there comes a time when for every addition in knowledge you forget something that you knew before.
Sir Arthur Conan DoyleSource: 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 LorenzEverything that is not forbidden by laws of nature is achievable, given the right knowledge.
David DeutschExperience 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 PinkerHe who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that.
John Stuart MillHe who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.
LaoziHis ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.
Sir Arthur Conan DoyleSource: A Study in Scarlet
How do I know what I think until I hear what I say?
Francis CrickHow 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 FabreHumor and knowledge are the two great hopes of our culture.
Konrad LorenzI know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.
Neil deGrasse TysonI know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
SocratesI read it in a book.
Samwell TarlyIf 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-TungIgnorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.
Charles DarwinSource: The Descent of Man
Ignorance, to a scientist, is an itch that begs to be pleasurably scratched.
Christopher HitchensImagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Albert EinsteinIn conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.
George HerbertInformation is not knowledge.
Albert EinsteinIntelligence is required to be able to know that a man knows not.
Michel de MontaigneIt 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 DarwinSource: The Descent of Man
It isn't knowledge, it's ignorance that - as we've been beautifully told - is bliss.
Elizabeth GaskellSource: 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 AssociationSource: Humanism and Its Aspirations
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
Jimi HendrixLife 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 PinkerOne has no right to love or hate anything if one has not acquired a thorough knowledge of its nature.
Leonardo da VinciOur 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 ChomskyPeople can believe in evolution without understanding it, and vice versa.
Steven PinkerSource: 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 LorenzPlay is the beginning of knowledge.
George DorseySapere aude.
HoraceLatin: Dare to know; Dare to be wise; Dare to think for yourself
Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
Will DurantScience is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
Carl SaganScience without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
Albert EinsteinSeek wisdom, not knowledge. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future.
Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.
Stephen Vizinczey