Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
ConfuciusIt is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
Imannuel KantIt is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
'Pride and Prejudice'
Jane AustenKnowing is the most profound kind of love, giving someone the gift of knowledge about yourself.
Marsha NormanOf all the stages in a woman's life, none is so dangerous as the period between her acknowledgement of a passion for a man, and the day set apart for her nuptials.
Hugh KellyThe great desire of this age is for a doctrine which may serve to condense our knowledge, guide our researches, and shape our lives, so that conduct may really be the consequence of belief
G H LewesPoets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
Percy Bysshe ShelleyWe do know, of certain knowledge, that (Bin Laden) is either in Afghanistan or in some other country or dead.
Donald RumsfeldOne of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.
Lord ByronKnowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.
Kahlil GibranTrue knowledge lies in knowing how to live.
Baltasar GracianAny committee is only as good as the most knowledgeable, determined and vigorous person on it. [and as weak as its weakest link]
Lady JohnsonFaith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.
Ambrose BierceNo one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.
Alfred North WhiteheadMy knowledge of gardening has increased with age, although I'm not as active with the spade and fork as I used to be.
Terence ConranKnowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
James MadisonKnowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in you seeds.
Kahlil GibranWisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.
Orison Swett MardenOur belief in any particular natural law cannot have a safer basis than our unsuccessful critical attempts to refute it.
[Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge]
Karl PopperLive in the future with which you create your present. Create and exchange and don't forget to acknowledge yourself and others.
Sofia MilosA manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.
Peter F DruckerTo know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.
Nicolas CopernicusScience is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.
Thomas HobbesCourage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought no to be feared.
David Ben-GurionKnowledge is the most democratic source of power.
Alvin TofflerReading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
John LockeThe mines of knowledge are often laid bare by the hazel-wand of chance.
Martin TupperThe only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.
Henry FordThere are many rules of thumb and laws out there of which we still have no knowledge, and as such they are in a real way hidden from us.
Umberto GiordanoKnowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.
William JamesThe really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.
Doris DayMaturity is sensitivity to human suffering and it seems that the more mature humanity becomes in terms of knowledge and age, the less mature we are in other ways.
Julius GordonThe ability to think straight, some knowledge of the past, some vision of the future, some urge to fit that service into the well-being of the community - these are the most vital things that education must try to produce.
Virginia GildersleeveThe ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained.
David BohmKnowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.
Sydney HarrisThe most important quality in a leader is that of being acknowledged as such. All leaders whose fitness is questioned are clearly lacking in force.
Andre MauroisOur knowledge is greater perhaps than we could have imagined, and all the time we realise how much more there is to know.
James GibsonThe utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
Joseph AddisonAnd the fruit of my vanity is shame, and repentance, and the clear knowledge that whatever the world finds pleasing, is but a brief dream.
PetrarchAbility in a man is knowledge which emanates from divine light
ZoroasterPerplexity is the beginning of knowledge.
Kahlil GibranIf you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it
Margaret FullerThe saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
Isaac AsimovEducation is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.
Lillian SmithThe difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
Vincent T LombardiWhere there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinions in good men is but knowledge in the making.
John MiltonIf a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?
Thomas HuxleyKnowledge is power if you know it about the right person.
Ethel MumfordLiberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.
John AdamsNobody spends somebody else's money as carefully as he spends his own. Nobody uses somebody else's resources as carefully as he uses his own. So if you want efficiency and effectiveness, if you want knowledge to be properly utilized, you have to do it through the means of private property.
Milton Friedman
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