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Ignorance is the curse of God knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
William Shakespeare on knowledge

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

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
Thomas Jefferson on knowledge

I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.
Thomas Jefferson on knowledge

Knowledge is love and light and vision.
Helen Keller on knowledge

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
Henry Ford on knowledge

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.
Confucius on knowledge

Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.
Khalil Gibran on knowledge

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.
Khalil Gibran on knowledge

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on knowledge

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.
Khalil Gibran on knowledge

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.
Socrates on knowledge

It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.
Friedrich Nietzsche on knowledge

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
Plato on knowledge

And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.
Plato on knowledge

To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.
Nicolaus Copernicus on knowledge

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.
Plato on knowledge

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.
Plato on knowledge

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
Plato on knowledge

Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.
Plato on knowledge