Knowledge

QUOTES

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
 Socrates
 -420

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
 Alfred Tennyson
 Locksley Hall, 1842

Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterward to solve other problems.
 Rene Descartes
 

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

He who knows does not speak. He who speaks does not know.
 Lao-Tzu
 -550

Learning without thought is labor lost. Thought without learning is perilous.
 Confucius
 -500

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.
 Sophocles
 -442

Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown.
 Claude Bernard
 

Knowledge itself is power.
 Francis Bacon
 Meditations, 1597

It is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.
 Josh Billings
 Proverb, 1874

A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
 Alexander Pope
 Essay on Criticism, 1711

See Also Ignorance Facts

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