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Quotes About Knowledge Wisdom

We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge.
John Naisbitt

We don't know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we'd be bored, wouldn't we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge.
Jack LaLanne

We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.
John Archibald Wheeler

When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.
Herbert Spencer

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.
Confucius

Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?
T. S. Eliot

Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
Leonardo da Vinci

Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile.
Abu Bakr

Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.
George Gurdjieff

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