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Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.
Alfred North Whitehead on knowledge

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.
Alfred North Whitehead on knowledge

Well, there are two kinds of happiness, grounded and ungrounded. Ungrounded happiness is cheesy and not based on reality. Grounded happiness is informed happiness based on the knowledge that the world sometimes sucks, but even then you have to believe in yourself.
Andy Grammer on knowledge

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
Herbert Spencer on knowledge

Science is organized knowledge.
Herbert Spencer on knowledge

Knowledge is going to make you stronger. Knowledge is going to let you control your life. Knowledge is going to give you the wisdom to teach their children. Knowledge is the thing that makes you smile in the face of disaster.
Avery Brooks on knowledge

Education in the light of present-day knowledge and need calls for some spirited and creative innovations both in the substance and the purpose of current pedagogy.
Anne Sullivan Macy on knowledge

Perhaps as good a classification as any of the main types is that of the three lusts distinguished by traditional Christianity - the lust of knowledge, the lust of sensation, and the lust of power.
Irving Babbitt on knowledge

I find myself going to places where I really have no business, speaking to these people in a whole other field that I have no extensive knowledge of. But I do it very often because it scares me.
Alan Alda on knowledge

In England only uneducated people show off their knowledge nobody quotes Latin or Greek authors in the course of conversation, unless he has never read them.
George Mikes on knowledge

Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give lustre, and many more people see than weigh.
Herodotus on knowledge

When knowledge is limited - it leads to folly... When knowledge exceeds a certain limit, it leads to exploitation.
Abu Bakr on knowledge

Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.
Mary Wollstonecraft on knowledge

In the Atlantean period there were many energies being used and information and knowledge being used which were, for particular reasons of safety, withdrawn, shall we say, to prevent complete catastrophe, to prevent total destruction of your planet.
David Icke on knowledge

Knowledge is not skill. Knowledge plus ten thousand times is skill.
Shinichi Suzuki on knowledge

Knowledge is generally considered a good thing so, presumably, knowing more about how the U.S. thinks and operates around the world is also good.
Peter Singer on knowledge

You don't need an explanation for everything, Recognize that there are such things as miracles - events for which there are no ready explanations. Later knowledge may explain those events quite easily.
Harry Browne on knowledge

I respect knowledge of the psyche. I would be a therapist if I weren't an entertainer.
Jessica Simpson on knowledge

Knowledge is not simply another commodity. On the contrary. Knowledge is never used up. It increases by diffusion and grows by dispersion.
Daniel J. Boorstin on knowledge

We have today a fairly thorough knowledge of the early Greco-Roman period because our motivations are the same.
Arthur Erickson on knowledge