Top 100 Quotes About A Little Knowledge
#1. What I would do with angel intel, I don't know. But it can't hurt to gain a little knowledge.
Tell that to Adam and Eve.
Susan Ee
#2. A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
- Harkat Mulds (Hunters of the Dusk)
Darren Shan
#3. A little knowledge would unlock the gates to vast and unsuspected gates of ignorance.
Ruth Downie
#4. Foolish men always believe that a little knowledge will give them control over the world, but it is no more than a display of their vanity.
J. P. Vinluca
#5. A little knowledge of God is worth more than a great deal of knowledge about him.
J.I. Packer
#6. A little knowledge could be a large comfort.
Patrick Ness
#7. What culture worth the name would deny women the right to safe motherhood? What value system would send young people ignorant into the world, when a little knowledge might save their lives?
Nafis Sadik
#8. A small amount of power corrupts a small man absolutely. A little knowledge is dangerous to a little man. To a great man only great knowledge is dangerous.
Leonard J. V. Compagno
#9. Wisdom brings a wholeness which understands its own ignorance. Someone with a little knowledge denies this, but those who study their lives long and diligently know they do not know anything.
Bahauddin
#10. For we can only know that we know nothing, and a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
Zhuangzi
#11. The young don't know that experience is a defeat and that we must lose everything in order to win a little knowledge.
Albert Camus
#12. They send you off to college, try to gain a little knowledge, but all you want to do is learn how to score.
Jimmy Buffett
#13. There's always a little truth behind every 'just kidding'. A little knowledge behind every 'I don't know'. A little emotion behind every 'I don't care'. And a little pain behind every 'it's okay'.
Anonymous
#14. As Kierkegaard said, "To win a crowd is no art; for that only untruth is needed, nonsense, and a little knowledge of human passions.
Brian Zahnd
#15. I would not want to form a partnership with an architect who has only a little knowledge of building or a broker who has a limited knowledge of the stock market. Still, we form what we hope to be permanent relationships in love with people who have hardly any knowledge of what love is.
Leo Buscaglia
#16. To sing you must first open your mouth. You must have a pair of lungs, and a little knowledge of music. It is not necessary to have an accordion, or a guitar. The essential thing is to want to sing. This then is a song. I am singing.
Henry Miller
#17. A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
Kahlil Gibran
#19. If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?
Thomas Henry Huxley
#20. A little knowledge withheld is a great advantage one should store for future use.
Amy Tan
#21. It was too bad, but sometimes a little knowledge could ruin your whole day, or at least take off some of the shine.
Jacqueline Kelly
#22. A little knowledge and an over-abundance of zeal always tends to be harmful. In the area involving religious truths, it can be disastrous.
Kathryn Kuhlman
#23. You know that saying 'A little knowledge is a dangerous thing'? That's so true of positive psychology. Our latest research tells us that the pursuit of happiness is a delicate art. Certain approaches to seeking happiness are now known to backfire, whereas others are effective.
Barbara Fredrickson
#24. Granny sighed. "You have learned something," she said, and thought it safe to insert a touch of sternness into her voice. "They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it is not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.
Terry Pratchett
#25. I also found out why I should never reveal the "why" to others. A little knowledge withheld is a great advantage one should store for future use. That is the power of chess. It is a game of secrets in which one must show and never tell.
Amy Tan
#26. If a little knowledge was a dangerous thing, a lot was lethal.
Tom Sharpe
#27. If your knowledge teaches you not to rise above human weakness and misery and lead your fellow man on the right path, you are indeed a man of little worth and will remain such till Judgment Day.
Khalil Gibran
#28. Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of God is confined to this or that book? How dare men call God infinite, and yet try to compress Him within the covers of a little book!
Swami Vivekananda
#29. I'd proven to the world that maturity, experience, dedication, and ingenuity can make up for a little senescence. Muscle tightening is not the only thing that happens to our bodies over time. We gain knowledge, focus, and understanding, and those things can help us win.
Dara Torres
#30. Not that any of the sysadmin's knowledge and skills were applicable here.
The psychological stance was the thing: the implicit faith, a little naive and a little cocky, that by banging his head against the problem for long enough he'd be able to break through in the end.
Neal Stephenson
#31. A little hope and love now and then
Wise and beautiful, more than often.
Debasish Mridha
#32. It is much more challenging to accept those who know a lot than those who know little.
Eraldo Banovac
#33. I consider that a man's brain is originally like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge that might be useful to him gets crowded out.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#34. If only it were possible for us to see farther than our knowledge reaches, and even a little beyond the outworks of our presentiment, perhaps we would bear our sadnesses with greater trust than we have in our joys.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#35. I'm among the first girls ever to play Little League baseball, and to my knowledge, the very first in western Illinois. It was 1976, and I was a nine-year-old tomboy whose older brothers had played.
Therese Fowler
#36. A stubborn mind conduces as little to wisdom or even to knowledge, as a stubborn temper to happiness
Robert Southey
#37. Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.
Lillian Smith
#38. If a young lady has that discretion and modesty without which all knowledge is little worth, she will never make an ostentatious parade of it, because she will rather be intent on acquiring more than on displaying what she has.
Hannah More
#39. I think of the need for more wisdom in the world, to deal with the knowledge that we have. At one time we had wisdom, but little knowledge. Now we have a great deal of knowledge, but do we have enough wisdom to deal with that knowledge?
Jonas Salk
#40. But because many endeavor to get knowledge rather than to live well, they are often deceived and reap little or no benefit from their labor.
Thomas A Kempis
#41. Once a man criticized my desire for knowledge by saying that it was not fitting for a woman to possess learning because there was so little of it. I replied that it was even less fitting for a man to possess ignorance because there was so much of it.
Christine De Pizan
#42. We are a people in more need of a little character than we are in need of an abundance of knowledge.
Abdullah Ibn Mubarak
#43. A time has come in our history when what is known has little connection with what is done.
Jennifer Stone
#44. Neil Young does throw in a major seven chord here and there, so if you're a new guitar player learning Neil Young songs, you'll learn some seven chords, and some different positions. Nothing too complicated, just enough to kind of open up your knowledge a little bit.
Jesse Harris
#45. His knowledge of country lore was a little hazy, but he felt fairly sure that if the cows lay down, it meant rain. If they were standing it would probably be fine. These cows were taking it in turns to execute slow and solemn somersaults; and Tyler wondered what it presaged for the weather.
Terry Pratchett
#46. But there seems to be little correlation between a man's effectiveness and his intelligence, his imagination or his knowledge.
Peter F. Drucker
#47. Restrain an inordinate desire for knowledge, in which is found much anxiety and deception. Learned men always wish to appear so, and desire recognition of their wisdom. But there are many matters, knowledge of which brings little or no advantage to the soul.
Thomas A Kempis
#48. A knowledge of truth is of little value unless lived in full measure.
Richard G. Scott
#49. We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs.
Bertrand Russell
#50. I do not believe that any man can adequately appreciate the world of to-day unless he has some knowledge of
a little more than a slight knowledge, some feeling for and of
the history of the world of the past.
Theodore Roosevelt
#51. A person with a big ego usually knows very little.
Eraldo Banovac
#52. Beautiful books, full of knowledge and beauty and ideas. All lost, thanks to a mad monk who, in the end, became a little too mad even for the church he served.
Jodi Taylor
#53. It's like you're always living in your head. . . . Relax and appreciate your surroundings a little.
Brent Jones
#54. Men are more readily contented with no intellectual light than with a little; and wherever they have been taught to acquire some knowledge in order to please others, they have most generally gone on to acquire more, to please themselves.
Charles Caleb Colton
#55. Since we cannot be universal and know all that is to be known of everything, we ought to know a little about everything. For it is far better to know something about everything than to know all about one thing.
Blaise Pascal
#56. A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy.
Camille Paglia
#57. To know a little of anything gives neither satisfaction nor credit, but often brings disgrace or ridicule.
Lord Chesterfield
#58. A little or superficial knowledge may incline a man's mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth him back to religion.
Anonymous
#59. I do not approve the maxim which desires a man to know a little of everything. Superficial knowledge, knowledge without principles, is almost always useless and sometimes harmful knowledge.
Luc De Clapiers
#60. I see ... the way you're always searching. How much you hate anything fake or phony. How you're older than your years, but still ... playful, like a little girl. How you're always looking into people, or wondering what they see when they look back at you. Your eyes. It's all in the eyes.
Claudia Gray
#61. A person of little knowledge
Grows old as a plough-ox grows old.
His fleshes increases;
His wisdom does not increase.
Anonymous
#62. Knowledge is limitless. Therefore, there is a minuscule difference between those who know a lot and those who know very little.
Leo Tolstoy
#63. We live on a little island of the articulable, which we tend to mistake for reality itself.
Marilynne Robinson
#64. Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.
Samuel Johnson
#65. Maybe the knowledge is too great and maybe men are growing too small. Maybe a specialist is only a coward, afraid to look out of his little cage. And think what any specialist misses - the whole world over his fence.
John Steinbeck
#66. What has been done is little - scarcely a beginning; yet it is much in comparison with the total blank of a century past. And our knowledge will, we are easily persuaded, appear in turn the merest ignorance to those who come after us.
Agnes Mary Clerke
#67. A little caring, a little love, and a little kindness can give you joy and bring enduring happiness.
Debasish Mridha
#68. Harry," she said, her voice a little thick with the whisky. "You found the way, didn't you?" What's so wonderful about it? I thought. Dogs do.
Charles Williams
#69. Knowledge is too final. Not knowing lets you dream a little.
Shaun Hick
#70. We live in the hope that life will be different. Just a little more substance perhaps in the intrinsic frailty of the days. Such resignation frightens me. Between gunshots I get drunk. In secret, all knowledge becomes anxiety.
Floriano Martins
#71. A wise system of education will at least teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.
John Lubbock
#72. Revealed insights should leave us stricken with the knowledge of how little we really know. It should never lead to an emotional arrogance based upon a false assumption that we somehow have all the answers - that we in fact have a corner on truth. For we do not.
Hugh B. Brown
#73. It's not even my job to educate, but what I do is try to facilitate by creating a book that works on different levels. I do want to entertain and bring some joy to the reading experience. If it holds a little kernel of knowledge that readers choose to explore, well, that's great.
Graeme Base
#74. There is very little knowledge that can't be obtained through effort. With knowledge you can determine the state of any business or opportunity and find a course to gain an advantage.
Mark Cuban
#75. Anyone who has experienced a strange episode in their life that defies all present scientific knowledge can appreciate the limits of human knowledge. There's nothing like such an event to make you keenly aware of how little we truly know and understand.
Steven Symes
#76. Do I believe in God? Sure. So I believe the Bible is the arbiter of theological knowledge? There it gets a little hazy.
Don Hoesel
#77. The truth is like salt. Men want to taste a little, but too much makes everyone sick.
Joe Abercrombie
#78. He thought of Gracie. How she was a fox (but Edward was not aware of this little irony, as to our knowledge the term fox, used to convey the attractiveness of a woman, was not invented until Jimi Hendrix sang "Foxy Lady" in 1967).
Cynthia Hand
#79. Ah! how little knowledge does a man acquire in his life. He gathers it up like water, but like water it runs between his fingers, and yet, if his hands be but wet as though with dew, behold a generation of fools call out, 'See, he is a wise man!' Is it not so?
H. Rider Haggard
#80. We never cared for such useless things as knowledge. We only cared for truth. And our unsophisticated little hearts knew well where the Crystal Palace of Truth lay and how to reach it. But to-day we are expected to write pages of facts, while the truth is simply this: "There was a king.
Rabindranath Tagore
#81. Universities are full of knowledge; the freshmen bring a little in and the seniors take none away, and knowledge accumulates.
A. Lawrence Lowell
#84. Although we weren't able to shatter that highest, hardest glass ceiling this time, thanks to you, it's got about 18 million cracks in it. And the light is shining through like never before, filling us all with the hope and the sure knowledge that the path will be a little easier next time.
Hillary Rodham Clinton
#85. She realises how little she knows about this man. Her knowledge little more than a thin sheen of brightness, like reflected sunlight on an opaque pond.
Glenn Haybittle
#86. If it were possible for us to see further than our knowledge extends and out a little over the outworks of our surmising, perhaps we should then bear our sorrows with greater confidence than our joys. For they are the moments when something new, something unknown, has entered us.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#87. We humans can never learn everything. The purpose of human life is not to learn everything. Rather it is to learn from every single walk of life and put that knowledge into practice in the pursuit of making human life a little better.
Abhijit Naskar
#88. Moderation, which consists in indifference about little things, and in a prudent and well-proportioned zeal about things of importance, can proceed from nothing but true knowledge, which has its foundation in self-acquaintance.
Plato
#89. A little hope, a little kindness,
can bring joy and dissolve sadness.
Debasish Mridha
#90. I had a traditional interview based on a phone call from an agent. He says there's a show and they would like to see you and its called Dallas. With very little knowledge I go over to this meeting at Warner Brothers.
Steve Kanaly
#91. Without knowledge and a workable plan, you are gambling, with little or no chance of success.
Robert G. Allen
#92. In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred; it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#93. When pain is to be born, a little courage helps more than much knowledge, a little human sympathy more than much courage, and the least tincture of the love of God more than all.
C.S. Lewis
#94. The greatest scientific discovery was the discovery of ignorance. Once humans realised how little they knew about the world, they suddenly had a very good reason to seek new knowledge, which opened up the scientific road to progress.
Yuval Noah Harari
#95. And they will ask thee of the spirit. Say: The spirit proceedeth at my Lord's command; but of knowledge, only a little is given to you.
Elijah Muhammad
#96. The customers, mostly well-to-do vacationers with little knowledge of turquoise, were using a standard principle - a stereotype - to guide their buying: expensive = good.
Robert B. Cialdini
#97. I am about courting a girl I have had but little acquaintance with. How shall I come to a knowledge of her faults, and whether she has the virtues I imagine she has? Answer. Commend her among her female acquaintances.
Benjamin Franklin
#98. In a dark place we find ourselves, and a little more knowledge lights our way.
George Lucas
#99. Infinite toil would not enable you to sweep away a mist; but by ascending a little you may often look over it altogether.
Arthur Helps
#100. The more we know, the better we realize that our knowledge is a little island in the midst of an ocean of ignorance.
Theodosius Dobzhansky
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