Keyword: Knowledge

Experience: A form of knowledge acquired only two ways: by doing and being done.

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

(1888 – 1957) English writer

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

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist

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

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

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist

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

(1862 – 1947) American educator

In baseball, you don’t know nothing.

(1925 – 2015) baseball player, coach & manager

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.

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

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

(1942 – 2018) English physicist

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

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

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

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

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

What you don't know will always hurt you.

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

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

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

(1868 – 1930) cartoonist, humorist & journalist