“Children with Hyacinth's temperament don't know better as they grow older; they merely know more.”
“The trouble with most folks ain't so much their ignorance as knowing so many things that ain't so.”
“Men can acquire knowledge, but not wisdom. Some of the greatest fools ever known were learned men.”
“Knowledge comes by eyes always open and working hands; and there is no knowledge that is not power.”
“I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.”
“In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal.”
“To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.”
“No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.”
“I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.”
“True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.”
“The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain't so.”
“To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.”
“It is disgraceful to live as a stranger in one's country, and be an alien in any matter that affects our welfare.”
“The mark of a well educated person is not necessarily in knowing all the answers, but in knowing where to find them.”
“To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.”
“Seldom if ever was knowledge given to keep, but always to impart. The grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.”
“The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts- the less you know the hotter you get.”
“Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others.”
“There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.”
“Knowledge is the best eraser in the world for disharmony, distrust, despair, and the endless physical deficiencies of man.”
“It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches.”
“We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.”
“I find that a great part of the information I have, was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.”
“One-tenth of the folks run the world. One-tenth watch them run it, and the other eighty percent don't know what the hell's going on.”
“You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I know that is not so.”
“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.”
“A superficial knowledge is not enough. It must be a knowledge capable of analyzing a situation quickly and making an immediate decision.”
“Try to put well in practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about.”
“Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.”
“Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.”