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“A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.”

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Author:Jane Austen

“If you dissemble sometimes your knowledge of that you are thought to know, you shall be thought, another time, to know that you know not.”

Ifs Knows Sometimes Time Knowledge Another Time

Author:Francis Bacon

“But this is that which will dignify and exalt knowledge: if contemplation and action be more nearly and straitly conjoined and united together than they have been: a conjunction like unto that of the highest planets, Saturn, the planet of rest and contemplation, and Jupiter, the planet of civil society and action.”

Ifs Has Beens Action Together United Knowledge Planets Highest Contemplation Civil Society Jupiter Conjunctions Saturn

Book:Bacon's Advancement of Learning and the New Atlantis

Source: Bacon's Advancement of Learning and the New Atlantis

“A king that would not feel his crown too heavy for him, must wear it every day; but if he think it too light, he knoweth not of what metal it is made.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Made Light Knowledge Kings Heavy Metals Crowns

Book:The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes

Source: The works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, in five volumes

“I am always of the opinion with the learned, if they speak first.”

Ifs Firsts Speak Opinion Knowledge

Author:William Congreve

“Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.”

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Author:Langston Hughes

“If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?”

Ifs Men Littles Science Sports Leadership Freedom Knowledge Democracy Dangerous Danger Knowledge And Learning Knowledge Learning Knowledge And Understanding Little Knowledge Learning Knowledge Dangerous Man Knowledge Is Dangerous

Author:Thomas Huxley

“If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.”

Ifs Men Inspirational Ends Wisdom Success Certain Business Knowledge Doubt Certainty Advancement Open Mind Doubted Certain Knowledge Doubt And Certainty

Author:Francis Bacon

“There is hardly any place or any company where you may not gain knowledge, if you please; almost everybody knows some one thing, and is glad to talk about that one thing.”

Ifs Knows May Company Knowledge One Thing Please Gains Glad

Book:The Modern Chesterfield

Source: The Modern Chesterfield

“When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it.”

Ifs Inspirational Persons Light Earth Lasts Forget Knowledge Findings Educational Finding Yourself Never Forget Forget It Schooled Vastness Knowledge Learning Pale Blue Dot

Author:Carl Sagan

“If we are to survive, we must have ideas, vision, and courage. These things are rarely produced by committees. Everything that matters in our intellectual and moral life begins with an individual confronting his own mind and conscience in a room by himself.”

Ifs Mind Ideas Matter Individual Rooms Moral Vision Knowledge Courage Learning Intellectual Conscience Management Committees Confronting Moral Compass Moral Life

Author:Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

“As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.”

Ifs Wells May Values Knowledge Amount Library Disorder Useful Knowledge

Book:On the Suffering of the World

Source: On the Suffering of the World

“If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.”

Ifs Looks Time Speak Grows Knowledge Future Seeds Grain Macbeth Play Important Macbeth Macbeth Conflict

Author:William Shakespeare

“If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.”

Ifs Men Inspirational Happens Knowledge History Learning Repeats Unexpected Incapable Learning Experience Man And Superman Repeating History History Repeats Itself

Book:George Bernard Shaw: Collected Articles, Lectures, Essays and Letters: Thoughts and Studies from the Renowned Dramaturge and Author of Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Pygmalion, Arms and The Man, Saint Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion

Source: George Bernard Shaw: Collected Articles, Lectures, Essays and Letters: Thoughts and Studies from the Renowned Dramaturge and Author of Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Pygmalion, Arms and The Man, Saint Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion

“If we become increasingly humble about how little we know, we may be more eager to search.”

Ifs Knows Inspirational May Littles Knowledge Humility Investing Humble Optimistic

Author:John Templeton

“If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.”

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Author:Derek Bok

“Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one.”

Ifs Stills Whole Problem Decision Views Knowledge Learning Clear Involved Flight Get Involved

Book:Notebooks, 1914-1916

Source: Notebooks, 1914-1916

“The purpose of science is not to analyze or describe but to make useful models of the world. A model is useful if it allows us to get use out of it.”

Ifs World Use Purpose Knowledge Learning Models

Book:I Am Right, You are Wrong: From this to the New Renaissance : from Rock Logic to Water Logic

Source: I Am Right, You are Wrong: From this to the New Renaissance : from Rock Logic to Water Logic

“If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.”

Ifs Knows Want Change Knowledge Learning Military Theory Revolution Taste Eating Direct Method Genuine Pears Knowledge And Experience Knowledge Experience Chinese Revolution

Book:Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works

Source: Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works

“If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next—if you knew in advance the consequences of your own actions—you'd be doomed. You'd be ruined as God. You'd be a stone. You'd never eat or drink or laugh or get out of bed in the morning. You'd never love anyone, ever again. You'd never dare to.”

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Author:Margaret Atwood

“If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.”

Ifs Inspirational Humor Funny Knowledge Newspapers Uninformed Reading Newspapers

Author:Mark Twain

“If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation.”

Ifs Knows Happiness Knowledge Creation Absence Possessed Fever Proust Knowledge Experience

Author:Anais Nin

“Confidence is ignorance. If you're feeling cocky, it's because there's something you don't know.”

Ifs Knows Feelings Knowledge Ignorance Confidence Humorous Cocky Artemis Fowl Artemis Fowl

Book:Artemis Fowl

Source: Artemis Fowl

“Human beings act in a great variety of irrational ways, but all of them seem to be capable, if given a fair chance, of making a reasonable choice in the light of available evidence. Democratic institutions can be made to work only if all concerned do their best to impart knowledge and to encourage rationality. But today, in the world's most powerful democracy, the politicians and the propagandists prefer to make nonsense of democratic procedures by appealing almost exclusively to the ignorance and irrationality of the electors.”

Source: Complete Essays: 1956-1963, and supplement, 1920-1948

“No matter where we begin, if we pursue knowledge diligently and honestly, our quest will inevitably lead us from the things of the earth to the things of heaven.”

Ifs Matter Earth Heaven Knowledge Honestly Pursue Quests

Book:Brother Brigham challenges the Saints

Source: Brother Brigham challenges the Saints

“I have no religion, and at times I wish all religions at the bottom of the sea. He is a weak ruler who needs religion to uphold his government; it is as if he would catch his people in a trap. My people are going to learn the principles of democracy, the dictates of truth and the teachings of science. Superstition must go. Let them worship as they will; every man can follow his own conscience, provided it does not interfere with sane reason or bid him against the liberty of his fellow-men.”

“The end of man is knowledge, but there is one thing he can't know. He can't know whether knowledge will save him or kill him. He will be killed, all right, but he can't know whether he is killed because of the knowledge which he has got or because of the knowledge which he hasn't got and which if he had it, would save him.”

Ifs Knows Men Ends Knowledge One Thing

Book:All the King's Men

Source: All the King's Men

“Perfect love casts out fear. Where there is love there are no demands, no expectations, no dependency. I do not demand that you make me happy; my happiness does not lie in you. If you were to leave me, I will not feel sorry for myself; I enjoy your company immensely, but I do not cling.”

Source: Awareness: Conversations with the Masters

“Pursue something so important that even if you fail, the world is better off with you having tried.”

Ifs World Important Knowledge Learning Failing Management Pursue Better Off

Author:Tim O'Reilly

“Oho, now I know what you are. You are an advocate of Useful Knowledge.... Well, allow me to introduce myself to you as an advocate of Ornamental Knowledge. You like the mind to be a neat machine, equipped to work efficiently, if narrowly, and with no extra bits or useless parts. I like the mind to be a dustbin of scraps of brilliant fabric, odd gems, worthless but fascinating curiosities, tinsel, quaint bits of carving, and a reasonable amount of healthy dirt. Shake the machine and it goes out of order; shake the dustbin and it adjusts itself beautifully to its new position.”

Source: Tempest-tost

“Isn't it strange how much we know if only we ask ourselves instead of somebody else.”

Ifs Knows Asks Knowledge Strange Statistics

Book:Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

Source: Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

“Most men believe that it would benefit them if they could get a little from those who have more. How much more would it benefit them if they would learn a little from those who know more.”

Ifs Knows Men Believe Littles Belief Knowledge Benefits

Author:William J. H. Boetcker

“Experts kill me. Economic experts, that is. Corporations, foundations, publications and governments pay them by the bucketful, and they fill buckets with forecasts that change more frequently than white-collar, workers do shirts. What Lies Ahead is the usual title. What Lies would often be more appropriate. If women's hemlines changed as rapidly as an economist's forecasts, the fashion people and the textile industry would be more profitable than any other. In fact, if all the country's economists were laid end to end, they still wouldn't reach a conclusion.”

“If you don't know, it's not always necessary to admit it.”

Ifs Knows Knowledge

Author:Malcolm Forbes

“Those who act as if they know more than their boss seldom do.”

Ifs Knows Knowledge Boss

Author:Malcolm Forbes

“If you give me rice, I'll eat today; if you teach me how to grow rice, I'll eat every day.”

Ifs Giving Today Grows Knowledge Teach Teacher Give Me Rice

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“The end of the Cold War removed the immediate causes of whole destruction but not the threat contained in our knowledge. We must tame this knowledge with the ideals of justice, caring, and compassion summoned from our common human spiritual and moral heritage, if we are to live in peace and serenity in the twenty-first century.”

“If most of us remain ignorant of ourselves, it is because self-knowledge is painful and we prefer the pleasures of illusion.”

Ifs Self Pleasure Knowledge Emotional Illusion Discovery Painful Self Discovery Ignorant Self Knowledge Know Yourself Self Conscious Willful Ignorance

Author:Aldous Huxley

“Any classification according to a singular identity polarizes people in a particular way, but if we take note of the fact that we have many different identities - related not just to religion but also to language, occupation and business, politics, class and poverty, and many others - we can see that the polarization of one can be resisted by a fuller picture. So knowledge and understanding are extremely important to fight against singular polarization.”

“If we are to have faith that mankind will survive and thrive on the face of the earth, we must believe that each succeeding generation will be wiser than its progenitors. We transmit to you, the next generation, the total sum of our knowledge. Yours is the responsibility to use it, add to it, and transmit it to your children.”

Ifs Believe Children Use Earth Faces Next Responsibility Knowledge Generations Mankind Succeed Our Children Add Your Children Thrive Have Faith Wiser Next Generation Transmit

Author:Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

“If you know anything better than this candidly impart it; if not, use this with me.”

Ifs Knows Use Knowledge Impart

Author:Horace

“If you wish to know yourself observe how others act. If you wish to understand others look into your own heart.”

Ifs Knows Looks Heart Wish Knowledge Know Yourself

Author:Friedrich Schiller

“Not if I know myself at all.”

Ifs Knows Knowledge

Book:The Works of Charles Lamb: To which are Prefixed, His Letters, and a Sketch of His Life

Source: The Works of Charles Lamb: To which are Prefixed, His Letters, and a Sketch of His Life

“A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting... Thus a man of knowledge sweats and puffs and if one looks at him he is just like an ordinary man, except that the folly of his life is under his control.”

Ifs Thinking Men Looks Life Is Acting Knowledge Ordinary Folly Live By Sweat Ordinary Man Puff

Author:Carlos Castaneda

“If we understood something just one way, we would not understand it at all.”

Ifs Way Knowledge Understood One Way Just One

Author:Marvin Minsky

“Nothing is so powerful as an insight into human nature... what compulsions drive a man, what instincts dominate his action. If you know these things abut a person, you can touch him at the core of his being.”

Ifs Knows Men Humans Persons Action Powerful Knowledge Human Nature Instinct Insight Core Compulsion

Author:William Bernbach

“If I had an hour to solve a problem and my life depended on the solution, I would spend the first 55 minutes determining the proper question to ask, for once I know the proper question, I could solve the problem in less than five minutes.”

Ifs Knows Firsts Problem Asks Hours Knowledge Learning Five Minutes Solutions Management Solve Five Minutes

Author:Albert Einstein

“If the ignorance of nature gave birth to gods, the knowledge of nature is calculated to destroy them.”

Ifs Science Religion Knowledge Atheism Ignorance Birth Atheist Atheistic Theism Theist Ignorance And Fear

Author:Baron d'Holbach

“If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.”

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Author:Albert Einstein

“If you don't realize there is always somebody who knows how to do something better than you, then you don't give proper respects for others' talents.”

Ifs Knows Giving Realizing Knowledge Know How Talent Something Better Respecting Others Better Than You

Author:Hortense Canady