Keyword: Knowledge

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

Mixed metaphors

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

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist
Education Fools Intelligence Wisdom

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

Murphy’s Laws

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

Intelligence Murphy’s Laws Understanding

Nobody really knows what is going on anywhere within the organization.

Intelligence Murphy’s Laws

In baseball, you don’t know nothing.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager
Baseball Sports Yogi-isms

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

Education Insults

It's what a fellow thinks he knows that hurts him.

(1868 – 1930) cartoonist, humorist & journalist
Intelligence

Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist
Beliefs Definitions

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
Beliefs Misspokements

Anything is possible if you don’t know what you are talking about.

Intelligence Murphy’s Laws

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
Beliefs

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

Intelligence Murphy’s Laws

Comparing information and knowledge is like asking whether the fatness of a pig is more or less green than the designated hitter rule.

(1948 – ) American writer & mathematician
Education Intelligence

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

(1942 – 2018) English physicist
Intelligence

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

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist
Communication Definitions Language

If you know you don't know much, you are smarter than most people.

Intelligence

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

Intelligence

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
Bushisms

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

(1888 – 1957) English writer
Beliefs Intelligence People

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
America Intelligence People