Keyword: Knowledge

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

(1868 – 1930) cartoonist, humorist & journalist
Intelligence

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

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

Intelligence Murphy’s Laws Understanding

In baseball, you don’t know nothing.

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

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

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian
Education

I am not young enough to know everything.

(1860 – 1937) Scottish author, dramatist (creator of Peter Pan)
Age Education Intelligence Young

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

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

Intelligence

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

Intelligence

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

Education Insults

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

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

Intelligence Murphy’s Laws

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

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

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

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

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

(1888 – 1957) English writer
Beliefs Intelligence People

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

Fools Intelligence

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

Murphy’s Laws People

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

Murphy’s Laws