Quotes for
the Journey:

Knowledge



It is impossible for people to learn
what they think they already know.

Epictetus

   

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

   

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

   

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

   
Imagination is more important than knowledge.  For while knowledge defines all we currently know and understand, imagination points to all we might yet discover and create.       -Albert Einstein
   
In seeking knowledge, the first step is silence, the second listening, the third remembering, the fourth practicing, and the fifth--teaching others.        -Solomon Ibn Gabirol
    
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
   

Trust yourself.  You know more than you think you do.     -Benjamin Spock

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.       -James Madison
   

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

   
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.       -Copernicus
   

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.        -Khalil Gibran

  

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

    
   
The greatest obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents and the oceans was not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge.       -Daniel J. Boorstin
   

The aim of education is the knowledge not of fact, but of values.        -Dean William R. Inge

   
The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge.       -Bertrand Russell
   

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

   

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

   

Knowledge cannot make us all leaders, but it can help us decide which leader to follow.       -Management Digest

   

There is a great difference between knowing a thing and understanding it.       -Charles Kettering

    

   

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