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Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.
Napoleon1769–1821
Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882
- Knowledge
We are living in a world, where what we earn is a function of what we learn.
Bill Clintonborn 1946
Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
Plato429–349 BCThe Republic (375 BC), Republic, Book VII, 536eIn context
- Knowledge
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
Albert Einstein1879–1955
The only secure knowledge is that I exist.
René Descartes1596–1650
- Knowledge
- Philosophy
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.
Kurt Vonnegut1922–2007Cat’s Cradle (1963), Chapter 124: Frank’s Ant Farm
Knowledge is not wisdom, unless used wisely.
JAJ.D. Anderson
- Knowledge
- Wisdom
All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions.
Leonardo da Vinci1452–1519The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883)
- Knowledge
Share your knowledge. It’s a way to achieve immortality.
Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lamaborn 1935
- Knowledge
From kindergarten to graduation, I went to public schools, and I know that they are a key to being sure that every child has a chance to succeed and to rise in the world.
Dick Cheney1941–2025
I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Isaac Newton1643–1727Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Discoveries of Sir Isaac Newton (1855) by Sir David Brewster (Volume II. Ch. 27)
- Knowledge
Life is not divided into semesters. You don’t get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself.
Bill Gatesborn 1955
People will pay more to be entertained than educated.
Johnny Carson1925–2005
- Entertainment
The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without a teacher.
Elbert Hubbard1856–1915
- Children