Keyword: Knowledge (Page 2)

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

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian

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

(1888 – 1957) English writer

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

(1868 – 1930) cartoonist, humorist & journalist

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

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

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

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

(1942 – 2018) English physicist

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

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 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.

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