Keyword: Knowledge

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

Intelligence

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

(1868 – 1930) cartoonist, humorist & journalist
Intelligence

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

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

Murphy’s Laws People

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.

Murphy’s Laws

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

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian
Education

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

(1771 – 1845) English writer & Anglican clergyman
Insults Intelligence

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

(1862 – 1947) American educator
Intelligence

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

Intelligence Murphy’s Laws Understanding

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

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

Education Murphy’s Laws

Adolescence is the time in life when a youngster is well informed about anything he doesn’t have to study.

Age Education

What you don't know will always hurt you.

Murphy’s Laws

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 Learning Murphy’s Laws

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

Definitions

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

(1942 – 2018) English physicist
Intelligence

I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.

(1889 – 1945) actor, author & humorist
Intelligence

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

Education Insults

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

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

(1888 – 1957) English writer
Beliefs Intelligence People