Knowledge is a weapon

“Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.” – Confucius

“Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.” – Anton Chekhov

“Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.” – Carl Gustav Jung

“Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.” – Ronald E. Osborn

“The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.” – Sir William Bragg

“To know that you do not know is best. To think you know when you do not is a disease. Recognizing this disease as a disease is to be free of it.” – Lao Tzu

“I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think.” – Socrates

“The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.” – Herbert Spencer

“The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.” –  Eden Phillpotts

“Great knowledge is universal. Small knowledge is limited. Great words are inspiring. Small words are chatter.” –  Zhuangzi

“Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.” –  Albert Einstein 

“To attain knowledge, add things every day. To attain wisdom, remove things every day.” – Lao Tzu

“Any fool can know. The point is to understand.” –  Albert Einstein

“Knowing what you don’t know is more useful than being brilliant.” – Charlie Munger

“The best thing a human being can do is to help another human being know more.” – Charlie Munger

“The best investment you can make, is an investment in yourself… The more you learn, the more you’ll earn.” – Warren Buffett

“All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know.” – Alexis Carrel

“Don’t try to comprehend with your mind. Your minds are very limited. Use your intuition.” – Madeleine L’Engle

“Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.” – Benjamin Spock

“Reading makes a full man.” – Francis Bacon

“Knowledge has a beginning but no end.” – Geeta Iyengar

“The true method of knowledge is experimentation.” – William Blake

“If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions.” – Susanne K. Langer

“The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds.” – John F. Kennedy

“In your thirst for knowledge, be sure not to drown in all the information.” – Anthony J. D’Angelo

“Knowledge is a weapon. I intend to be formidably armed.” – Terry Goodkind

“An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.” – Benjamin Franklin

“If facts are the seeds that later produce knowledge and wisdom, then the emotions and the impressions of the senses are the fertile soil in which the seeds must grow.” –  Rachel Carson

“Real knowledge breeds “body feel” and personal expression; surface knowledge breeds mechanical conditioning and imposing limitation and squelches creativity.” –  Bruce Lee

“Humility will teach you knowledge, arrogance will teach you ignorance. If you think you know it all, you have learned nothing.” – Thibaut

“Knowledge is power but only wisdom is liberty.” – Will Durant

“Knowledge is rooted in all things – the world is a library.” – Lakota proverb

“Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.” – Jacob Bronowski

“Knowledge is useful when applied, but over-accumulated for its own sake is a burden.” – Naval Ravikant

“Information is not knowledge.” – Albert Einstein

“Reading is not a chore. Reading is theft. It is a robbery. Someone smarter than you has spent 20 years beating their head against the wall trying to solve the problem you’re dealing with. You can steal that hard won knowledge and make it yours. That is power.” – @TheStoicEmperor

“Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand.” – Ezra Pound

“The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading.” – David Bailey

“Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.” – Thucydides

“Ignorance, the root and stem of every evil.” – Plato

“Life is traveling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap is taken.” – D.H. Lawrence

“If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?” – Thomas Henry Huxley

“Fill thy mind with useful knowledge and thou shalt avoid empty words.” – James Lendall Basford

“Knowledge, like air, is vital to life. Like air, no one should be denied it.” – Alan Moore

“No thief, however skilful, can rob one of knowledge, and that is why knowledge is the best and safest treasure to acquire.” – L. Frank Baum

“Not to know is bad; not to wish to know is worse.” – African Proverb

“The construction timeline of knowledge is similar to a skyscraper, too. Takes forever for the hole to be dug and the foundation poured, then the facade appears quickly.” – Michael

“I know just enough to know how little we know.” – Naval Ravikant

“The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.” – Albert Einstein

“Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.” – Anton Chekhov

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