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Whatever authority I may have rests solely on knowing how little I know. Socrates

Daniel J. Boorstin

I like to have a person's knowledge comprehend
more than one class of topics, one row of shelves.
I like a person who likes to see a fine barn
as well as a good tragedy.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us;
and the more we gain, the more is our desire.  The more we see,
the more we are capable of seeing.

Maria Mitchell 

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Albert Einstein

Nothing will divide this nation more than ignorance,
and nothing can bring us together better than an educated population.

John Sculley

Copernicus

The preservation of the means of knowledge among the lowest ranks
is of more importance to the public than all the property of the rich men in the country.

John Adams

James Madison

Any piece of knowledge I acquire today has a value at this moment
exactly proportioned to my skill to deal with it.  Tomorrow, when
I know more, I recall that piece of knowledge and use it better.

Mark van Doren

Solomon Ibn Gabirol

I think that by far the most important bill in our whole code is that
for the diffusion of knowledge among the people.  No other sure
foundation can be devised for the preservation of freedom, and happiness.

Thomas Jefferson

No university on Earth gives master’s degrees of living, of happiness.
How strange!  We seem to be missing the essential, the all-encompassing
knowledge for which universities were originally created!

Robert Muller

The gulf between knowledge and truth is infinite.

Henry Miller

True knowledge is not attained by thinking.
It is what you are; it is what you become.

Sri Aurobindo

To know how little one knows is to have genuine knowledge.
Not to know how little one knows is to be deluded.
Only those who know when they are deluded can free themselves
from such delusion.  The intelligent people are not deluded,
because they know and accept their ignorance as ignorance,
and thereby have genuine knowledge.

Lao-tzu

If a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, where is a person
who has so much as to be out of danger?

Thomas Henry Huxley

Confucius said, "To know what you know and know what you don't know
is the characteristic of one who knows."

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom.  One can find it, live it,
be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

Herman Hesse

The fruits of the tree of knowledge are various;
they must be strong indeed who can digest all of them.

Mary Coleridge