Quotes for: to know

Quotes for: to know

Know or listen to those who know.
Baltasar Gracian - The Art of Worldly Wisdom

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We know accurately only when we know little; with knowledge, doubt increases.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Maxims and Reflections

We know accurately only when we know little; with knowledge, doubt increases.

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
Isaac Asimov

Knowing is not enough; we must apply.
Willing is not enough; we must do.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Few people know how to be old.
François de La Rochefoucauld - Reflections, or Sentences and Moral Maxims

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He who knows does not speak; he who speaks does not know.
Laozi

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All I know is that I know nothing.
Socrates

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Men should strive to think much and know little.
Democritus

Knowledge is power.
Francis Bacon

Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert Einstein

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
Immanuel Kant

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.
Carl Gustav Jung

I know that I know nothing.

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Dare to be wise, begin!
Quintus Horatius Flaccus - Epistles

Dare to be wise, begin!

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Doubt is not below knowledge, but above it.
Émile-Auguste Chartier, known as Alain

Not only were we happy, but we knew it.
Rudyard Kipling

We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to comes.
Milan Kundera - The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Man knows much more than he understands.
Alfred Adler

Without the art of living knowledge nought avails.
Voltaire

Everyone's responsibility involves two acts: wanting to know and daring to say.
Abbé Pierre

Sunshine cannot bleach the snow,
Nor time unmake what poets know.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Of all the sciences needful for men, the chief one is the knowledge of how to live, doing as little harm as possible; and of all arts, the most important is that which teaches how to avoid evil, and how to produce good with the least violence.
Leo Tolstoy

Most teachers waste their time by asking questions which are intended to discover what a pupil does not know, whereas the true art of questioning has for its purpose to discover what the pupil knows or is capable of knowing.
Albert Einstein

He knows the universe, and himself he does not know.
Jean de La Fontaine - Fables

Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know.
Bertrand Russell

What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
Immanuel Kant

The main scourge of humanity is not ignorance, because the ignorant often have excuses, but the refusal to know.
Simone de Beauvoir