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The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.

The profoundly wise do not declaim against superficial knowledge in others, as much as the profoundly ignorant.

There is much pleasure to be gained in useless knowledge.

There are things on heaven and earth, Horatio, Man was not meant to know.

The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to remount first principles, and to take nobody's word about them.

The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.

Through zeal, knowledge is gotten, through lack of zeal, knowledge is lost; let a man who knows the double path of gain and loss thus place himself that knowledge may grow.

We can be Knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

Wisdom and knowledge decrease in inverse proportion to age.

Wisdom is considered a sign of weakness by the powerful because a wise man can lead without power but only a powerful man can lead without wisdom.

Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning ... and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.

An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less.

Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?

He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that.

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing.

It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.

The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.

To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.