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A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but a little want of knowledge is also a dangerous thing. Samuel Butler
Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you; you must acquire it. Anonymous
Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; an argument an exchange of ignorance. Robert Quillen
I love talking about nothing. It is the only thing I know anything about. Oscar Wilde
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification. Martin H. Fischer
Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness. George Washington
Knowledge is only potential power. Napoleon Hill
Not to know is bad, not to wish to know is worse. Proverb
Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge. Kahlil Gibran
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance. Confucius
The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge. Thomas Berger
The more extensive a man’s knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do. Benjamin Disraeli
There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating; people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing. Oscar Wilde
There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it. Charles F. Kettering
There is no knowledge that is not power. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach. Aristotle
Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge. Lao Tzu
To know and not to do is not to know. Proverb
To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge. Confucius
A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge. Thomas Carlyle
Abstract knowledge is always useful, sooner or later. Robert A. Heinlein
Alchemists turned into chemists when they stopped keeping secrets. Eric Raymond
All knowledge is connected to all other knowledge. The fun is in making the connections. Arthur Aufderheide
All knowledge is worth having. Jacqueline Carey
All men by nature desire to know. Aristotle
An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. Benjamin Franklin
As much as possible, to boost mankind’s collective capability for coping with complex, urgent problems. Douglas C. Engelbart
Better is the enemy of ‘good enough.’ John Berg
Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance. George Bernard Shaw
Collaboration equals innovation. Michael Dell
He who tells all that he knows, tells more than he knows. George Harrison
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. Albert Einstein
I collaborate, therefore I know. KM World Magazine
I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House – with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone. John F. Kennedy
If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is a man who has so much as to be out of danger? Thomas Henry Huxley
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them. Isaac Asimov
If knowledge is power and power corrupts, doesn’t knowledge corrupt? Unknown
If knowledge is power, and power corrupts, and corruption is crime, and crime doesn’t pay…Does knowledge, in the end, leave you broke? Unknown
If things are not interesting in themselves, how can any amount of knowledge about them be? George MacDonald
If you don’t like that idea, I’ve got plenty of others! R. Buckminster Fuller
Ignorance hates knowledge. Death Star
Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven. William Shakespeare
I’m looking forward to a world where the whole concept of ‘e-mail’ — a special mode of operation where everything is viewed based on discrete transactions — is replaced by a much more powerful way of viewing and sharing connected information in context. Harlan Hugh
Imagination is more important than knowledge, for knowledge is limited while imagination embraces the entire world. Albert Einstein
In a knowledge-driven economy, talk is real work. Thomas H. Davenport and Laurence Prusak
Information is not knowledge. Albert Einstein
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. Samuel Johnson
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. Albert Einstein
It isn’t what you know that counts; it’s what you think of in time. Benjamin Franklin
It’s the people, stupid. Alan Kay
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Knowledge and human power are synonymous. Sir Francis Bacon
Knowledge is experience; everything else is information. Albert Einstein
Knowledge is free at the library. Just bring your own container. Unknown
Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Knowledge is like money: to be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value. Louis L’Amour
Knowledge is more than equivalent to force. Samuel Johnson
Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it. Samuel Johnson
Knowledge is power, knowledge is safety, knowledge is happiness. Thomas Jefferson
Knowledge is power. Sir Francis Bacon
Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be. Albert Einstein
Knowledge shared is knowledge squared. Microsoft Corporation
Knowledge will forever govern ignorance. James Madison
Knowledge, having irritated and stimulated our appetite for power, will lead us inexorably to our ruin. Emile M. Cioran
Knowledge, in truth, is the grate sun in the firmament. Life and power are scattered with all its beams. Daniel Webster
One’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. Oliver Wendell Holmes
People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge. Lao-tzu
Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Sensory raw material, the only source of our knowledge, may lead us to belief and expectation but not [necessarily] to knowledge. Albert Einstein
The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance. Benjamin Franklin
The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth. John F. Kennedy
The great end of knowledge is not knowledge, but action. Thomas Henry Huxley
The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds. John F. Kennedy
The only reason [groupware is] worth the effort at all is that it’s inevitable. Susanna Opper, Henry Fersko-Weiss
The only source of knowledge is experience. Albert Einstein
The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination. Albert Einstein
There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there. Albert Einstein
To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge. Sir Benjamin Disraeli
Trust is the bandwidth of human communications. Karl Erik Sveiby
We know accurately only when we know little; with knowledge doubt increases. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We must know; we will know. Hilbert
What you know you know. What you don’t know, you don’t know. This is knowledge. Confucius
Where knowledge ends, religion begins. Benjamin Disraeli