Keyword: Knowledge

An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less until he knows absolutely everything about nothing.

The specialist learns more and more about less and less until, finally, he knows everything about nothing; whereas the generalist learns less and less about more and more until, finally, he knows nothing about everything.

Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

An expert really doesn't know anymore than you do. He is merely better organized and has slides.

It is a secret in the Oxford sense; you may tell it to only one person at a time.

(1905 – 1992) English civil servant & philosopher

If what you don't know can't hurt you, she's practically invulnerable.

Consolation: The knowledge that a better man is more unfortunate than yourself.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist

… the less a man knows, the more sure it is that he knows everything.

(1888 – 1957) English writer

I am not young enough to know everything.

(1860 – 1937) Scottish author, dramatist (creator of Peter Pan)

Well, um, you know, something’s neither good nor bad but thinking makes it so, I suppose, as Shakespeare said.

(1932 – ) American businessman & U.S. Secretary of Defense

Only someone who understands something absolutely can explain it so no one else can understand it.

An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less until he knows absolutely everything about nothing.

What you don't know would make a good book.

(1771 – 1845) English writer & Anglican clergyman

The less a person knows, the more he wants to tell it.

Some drink deeply from the river of knowledge… others only gargle.

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian

Education is the process of moving from cocksure ignorance to thoughtful uncertainty.

What I'm suggesting to you is, if you can't name the foreign minister of Mexico, therefore, you know, you're not capable of what you do.

(1946 – ) 43rd U.S. president

The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.

(1942 – 2018) English physicist

Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is knowing not to use it in a fruit salad.

If you surveyed a hundred typical middle-aged Americans, I bet you'd find that only two of them could tell you their blood types, but every last one of them would know the theme song from The Beverly Hillbillies.

(1947 – ) American columnist & humorist

I can't answer that – it's out of my water.