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Knowledge Is Power Quotes

Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.
Arthur Conan Doyle
Doubt grows with knowledge.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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
Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.
Baltasar Gracian
Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.
Vincent Van Gogh
Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.
Horace Mann
Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.
Simone Weil
Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.
Pericles
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
Thomas Jefferson
Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
Plato
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