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0518  C
“Knowledge is power.” — Francis Bacon
KNOWLEDGE, Authority

0519  P
“Knowledge is the antidote to fear.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
KNOWLEDGE, Fear

0520
“Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.” — Plato
KNOWLEDGE, Wisdom, Dishonesty, Law

0521
“When a man’s knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.” — Herbert Spencer
KNOWLEDGE, Effectiveness

0522
“If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.” — Benjamin Franklin
KNOWLEDGE, Wealth, Self-Confidence

0523
“That jewel knowledge is great riches, which is not plundered by kinsmen, nor carried off by thieves, nor decreased by giving.” — Bhavabhuti
KNOWLEDGE, Wealth, Charity

0524
“Knowledge increases in proportion to its use - that is, the more we teach the more we learn.” — H. P. Blavatsky
KNOWLEDGE, Charity

0525
“If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it.” — Thomas Fuller, D.D.
KNOWLEDGE, Charity

0526  A
“Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which he cannot apply will make no man wise.” — Samuel Johnson
KNOWLEDGE, Wisdom

0527  A
“Whoever acquires knowledge but does not practice it is as one who ploughs but does not sow.” — Sa'di
KNOWLEDGEEffectiveness, Motivation, Potential

0528  A
“Knowledge always desires increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but which will afterwards propagate itself.” — Samuel Johnson
KNOWLEDGE, Motivation, Optimism

0529  A
“Memory is the receptacle and sheath of all knowledge.” — Marcus Tulius Cicero
KNOWLEDGE, Experience

0530  A
“A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature.” — John Henry Newman
KNOWLEDGE, Arts, Wisdom

0531  H
“The difference between intelligence and education is this - that intelligence will make you a good living.” — Charles F. Kettering
KNOWLEDGE, Effectiveness

0532  P
“Education is learning what you didn’t even know you didn’t know.” — Daniel Joseph Boorstin
KNOWLEDGE, Perception

0533  P
“If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.” — Derek Curtis Bok
KNOWLEDGE, Ignorance

0534  A
“Education is a chest of tools.” — Herbert Kaufman
KNOWLEDGE, Decision Making, Judgment

0535
“Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.” — Malcolm S. Forbes
KNOWLEDGE, Thought, Judgment

0536
“Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.” — Thomas Henry Huxley
KNOWLEDGE, Motivation, Procrastination

0537  A
“’Tis education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree’s inclined.” — Alexander Pope
KNOWLEDGE, Potential

0538  P
“Man’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes
KNOWLEDGE, Originality

0539
“Education has to be fun, and fun has to be education.” — Herbert Marshall McLuhan
KNOWLEDGE, Happiness

0540  A
“The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.” — Aristotle
KNOWLEDGE, Perseverance, Reward

0541  C
“Only the educated are free.” — Epictetus
KNOWLEDGE, Government

0542
“Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.” — B(urrhus) F(rederic) Skinner
KNOWLEDGE, Wisdom

0543
“Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.” — Will Durant
KNOWLEDGE, Ignorance

0544  C
“Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.” — Francis Bacon
KNOWLEDGE, Arts

0545  H
“A college education shows a man how little other people know.” — Thomas Chandler Haliburton
KNOWLEDGE, Ignorance

0546  H
“Whether four years of strenuous attention to football and fraternities is the best preparation for professional work has never been seriously investigated.” — Robert Maynard Hutchins
KNOWLEDGE, Effectiveness, Planning, Health & Fitness

0547  PH
“Universities are full of knowledge; the freshmen bring a little in and the seniors take none away, and knowledge accumulates.” — Abbott Lawrence Lowell
KNOWLEDGE, Ignorance

0548
“We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
KNOWLEDGE, Ignorance, Originality

0549  P
“Fathers send their sons to college, either because they went to college, or because they didn’t.” — L(inville) L(aurentine) Hendren
KNOWLEDGE, Family & Friends

0550  A
“As turning the logs will make a dull fire burn, so changes of studies a dull brain.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
KNOWLEDGE, Ignorance

0551
“Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.” — Oscar Wilde
KNOWLEDGE, Wisdom

0552
“Teaching is the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.” — Anatole France
KNOWLEDGE, Thought, Optimism, Motivation

0553
“A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.” — Patricia Neal
KNOWLEDGE, Potential, Authority

0554
“To waken interest and kindle enthusiasm is the sure way to teach easily and successfully.” — Tryon Edwards
KNOWLEDGE, Optimism, Motivation

0555
“You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him to find it within himself.” — Galileo Galilei
KNOWLEDGE, Thought, Excellence

0556
“Lessons are not given, they are taken.” — Cesare Pavese
KNOWLEDGE, Experience

0557  A
“Teachers open the door.  You enter by yourself.” — Chinese Proverb
KNOWLEDGE, Motivation

0558
“The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence.” — Amos Bronson Alcott
KNOWLEDGE, Perception

0559
“There is a great difference between knowing a thing and understanding it. You can know a lot about something and not really understand it.” — Charles F. Kettering
KNOWLEDGE, Wisdom, Thought, Sciences

0560
“I hear, and I forget. I see, and I remember. I do, and I understand.” — Chinese Proverb
KNOWLEDGE, Habit

0561  C
“What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing.” — Aristotle
KNOWLEDGE, Motivation

0562  C
“A little learning is a dangerous thing!” — Alexander Pope
KNOWLEDGE, Bores

0563  C
“A little learning is a dangerous thing, but none at all is fatal.” — Viscount Samuel
KNOWLEDGE, Ignorance

0564
“The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.” — Lucius Annaeus Seneca
KNOWLEDGE, Hate

0565
“The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.” — G(ilbert) K(eith) Chesterton
KNOWLEDGE, Ego, Bores

0566  P
“It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.” — Epictetus
KNOWLEDGE, Perception, Bores

0567  C
“Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.” — Confucius
KNOWLEDGE, Thought

0568
“All wish to be learned, but no one is willing to pay the price.” — Juvenal
KNOWLEDGE, Perseverance, Wealth

0569
“It is always in season for old men to learn.” — Aeschylus
KNOWLEDGE, Age

0570
“He listens well who takes notes.” — Dante Alighieri
KNOWLEDGE, Thought, Communication, Speeches

0571
“Learning isn’t a means to an end; it is an end in itself.” — Robert Anson Heinlein
KNOWLEDGE, Personal Management, Wisdom

KNOWLEDGE Cross-References
Motivation—101 • Self-Confidence—208 • Pessimism—274 • Fear—328 • Doubt—355 • Failure—389-390 • Personal Management—445 • Effectiveness—465 • Ignorance—502-503, 508, 510, 512 • Wisdom—572, 576-580, 582, 585, 595-596 • Perception—600, 615 • Thought—629, 638, 640, 642 • Judgment—673, 678 • Genius—715 • Originality—719, 728-729 • Innovation—735, 746 • Humility—832 • Business—1044 • Arts—1061-1062, 1065, 1067-1068, 1070, 1073-1074 • Sciences—1084-1085, 1104 • Leadership—1138, 1142 • Accountability—1164 • Competition—1180, 1182 • Punishment—1223 • Communication—1391-1392, 1396-1398 • Bores—1422 • Experience—1460, 1462-1463, 1468