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






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.




Knowing is not enough; we must apply.
Willing is not enough; we must do.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years / 
 



Knowing is not enough; we must apply.
Willing is not enough; we must do.




Without the art of living knowledge nought avails.
Voltaire - Épîtres / 
 






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






All I know is that I know nothing.
Socrates / 






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 / 






We live to know and to know ourselves.
Baltasar Gracian - The Art of Worldly Wisdom / 
 






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






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



Dare to be wise, begin!

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Men should strive to think much and know little.
Democritus - Fragments / 
 






Knowledge is power.
Francis Bacon / 






Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert Einstein / 






Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
A phrase often attributed to Immanuel Kant - Quotation of uncertain origin / 






One never goes so far as when one no longer knows where one is going.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Maxims and Reflections / 
 






I know that I know nothing.
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He who knows does not speak; he who speaks does not know.
Laozi / 






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






Do not try to understand everything, lest you become ignorant of everything.
Democritus - Fragments / 
 






To know truly is to know by causes.
Francis Bacon - Novum organum / 
 






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






Everyone's responsibility involves two acts: wanting to know and daring to say.
Henri Grouès / 






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 / 






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






To know much is often the cause of doubting more.
Michel de Montaigne - Essays / 
 






There is today perhaps no more firmly credited prejudice than this: that one knows what really constitutes the moral.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - The Dawn / 
 






I only wish that wisdom were the kind of thing that flowed ... from the vessel that was full to the one that was empty.
Plato - Symposium / 
 






To know is to know that one knows.
Émile-Auguste Chartier, known as Alain / 






One does not know completely a science as long as one does not know its history.
Auguste Comte - Course of Positive Philosophy / 
 










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