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Knowledge

Knowledge is that which, next to virtue,
truly raises one person above another.
- Joseph Addison

For the things we have to learn before we
can do them, we learn by doing them.
- Aristotle

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

Do the things external which fall upon thee distract thee?
Give thyself time to learn something new
and good, and cease to be whirled around.
- Marcus Aurelius

Be lions roaring through the forests of knowledge.
- Ba’Hai Scriptures

I think knowing what you cannot do is more important
than knowing what you can do.
- Lucille Ball

We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled.
The trick is knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.
- Ray Bradbury

Impossibilities are merely things which we have not yet learned.
- Charles W. Chesnutt

Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket,
and do not pull it out and strike it merely to show you have one.
If you are asked what o'clock it is, tell it, but do not proclaim
it hourly and unasked, like the watchman.
- Lord Chesterfield

We owe almost all of our knowledge not to those who have agreed,
but to those who have differed.
- Charles Caleb Colton

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
- Confucius

Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
- T. S. Eliot

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.
- Margaret Fuller

Our problem is not the lack of knowledge; it is the lack of doing.
Most people know far more than they think they do.
- Mark Hatfield

Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every
preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever or whatever abysses
nature leads, or you will learn nothing.
- Thomas H. Huxley

Knowledge is power... knowledge is safety... knowledge is happiness.
- Thomas Jefferson

The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
- B.B. King

The further I go, the sorrier I am about how little I know: it is this
that bothers me the most.
- Claude Monet

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.
- Will Rogers

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.
- Bertrand Russell

To know that we know what we know, and that
we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.
- Henry David Thoreau

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