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Quotes about knowledge
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The knowledge of an unlearned man is living and luxuriant like a forest, but covered with mosses and lichens and for the most part inaccessible and going to waste; the knowledge of the man of science is like timber collected in yards for public works, which still supports a green sprout here and there, but even this is liable to dry rot. (Babbage Charles)
To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge. (Babbage Charles)
Knowledge is the most democratic source of power. (Babbage Charles)
We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter. (Babbage Charles)
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Between us, we cover all knowledge; he knows all that can be known and I know the rest. (Babbage Charles)
A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way. (Babbage Charles)
Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive. (Babbage Charles)
Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows. (Babbage Charles)
Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one. (Babbage Charles)
Some students drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle. (Babbage Charles)
Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to practical use. (Babbage Charles)
Know-how will surpass guess-how. (Babbage Charles)
A wise man, when asked how he had learned so much about everything, replied: By never being ashamed or afraid to ask questions about anything of which I was ignorant. (Babbage Charles)
No man knows less than the man who knows it all (Babbage Charles)
Nothing is too small to know, and nothing too big to attempt. (Babbage Charles)
Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not. (Babbage Charles)
We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance. (Babbage Charles)
Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known. (Babbage Charles)
In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal. (Babbage Charles)
I am not young enough to know everything. (Babbage Charles)
There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating --people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing. (Babbage Charles)
Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement. (Babbage Charles)
There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source. (Babbage Charles)
If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience. (Babbage Charles)
I think knowledge wise, as a director or actor; I am no different than 3 years ago. (Babbage Charles)
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