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  • We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power.

    Bertrand Russell (1985). “The ABC of relativity”, Signet
  • We can say of Shakespeare, that never has a man turned so little knowledge to such great account.

    Knowledge   Men   Littles  
  • 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?

  • The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land, to add something to the extent and the solidity of our possessions.

    Thomas Henry Huxley “Selected Works of Thomas Henry Huxley”, Library of Alexandria
  • Christ was crucified because he would have nothing to do with the crowd (even though he addressed himself to all). He did not want to form a party, an interest group, a mass movement, but wanted to be what he was, the truth, which is related to the single individual. Therefore everyone who will genuinely serve the truth is by that very fact a martyr. To win a crowd is no art; for that only untruth is needed, nonsense, and a little knowledge of human passions. But no witness to the truth dares to get involved with the crowd.

    Art   Passion   Winning  
  • 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?

    Wise   Running   Stupid  
    H. Rider Haggard (2011). “She: A History of Adventure”, p.146, Modern Library
  • Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

    Wisdom   Fear   Angel  
    An Essay on Criticism l. 625 (1711)
  • Women are told from their infancy, and taught by the example of their mothers, that a little knowledge of human weakness, justly termed cunning, softness of temper, outward obedience and a scrupulous attention to a puerile kind of propriety, will obtain for them the protection of man.

    Mother   Men   Weakness  
    Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Janet Todd (1989). “The Works of Mary Wollstonecraft”, NYU Press
  • A little knowledge and an over-abundance of zeal always tends to be harmful. In the area involving religious truths, it can be disastrous.

  • Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

    Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.419, Simon and Schuster
  • A little knowledge can go a long way.

    Art   Long   Littles  
    Jenny Holzer, Noemi Smolik (1996). “Jenny Holzer: writing”
  • 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.

    Ignorance   Voice   Half  
    Terry Pratchett (2009). “Equal Rites: (Discworld Novel 3)”, p.80, Random House
  • A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

  • An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

    Jack Vincent, Benjamin Franklin (2010). “Benjamin Franklin's the Way to Wealth”, p.91, The Way to Wealth
  • There is a tendency among men as well as women ... so soon as they have acquired a little knowledge of some kind, to want to display it to the best advantage.

    Men   Want   Littles  
    Lady Murasaki, Murasaki Shikibu, Arthur Waley (2000). “The Tale of Genji”, p.32, Courier Corporation
  • For we can only know that we know nothing, and a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.

  • 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.

  • Is America a land of God where saints abide for ever? Where golden fields spread fair and broad, where flows the crystal river? Certainly not flush with saints, and a good thing, too, for the saints sent buzzing into man's ken now are but poor-mouthed ecclesiastical film stars and clich?-shouting publicity agents. Their little knowledge bringing them nearer to their ignorance, ignorance bringing them nearer to death, but nearness to death no nearer to God.

    Stars   Ignorance   Men  
    Sean O'Casey (1956). “Inishfallen, fare thee well. Rose and crown. Sunset and evening star”, MacMillan
  • They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

    Terry Pratchett (2009). “Equal Rites: (Discworld Novel 3)”, Random House
  • Fortunate indeed are those in which there is combined a little good and a little bad, a little knowledge of many things outside their own callings, a capacity for love and a capacity for hate, for such as these can look with tolerance upon all, unbiased by the egotism of him whose head is so heavy on one side that all his brains run to that point.

    Edgar Rice Burroughs (2015). “The Complete Science Fiction Novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs (Illustrated): A Princess of Mars, Llana of Gathol, The Gods of Mars, Beyond Thirty, The Warlord of Mars, The Chessmen of Mars, The Master Mind of Mars, Pirates of Venus, The Monster Men and many more”, p.620, e-artnow
  • A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. I regret that this isn't fatal.

  • They send you off to college, try to gain a little knowledge, but all you want to do is learn how to score.

    Song: Pencil-thin mustache, 1974
  • A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot.

  • A little knowledge is a dangerous thing." - Harkat Mulds (Hunters of the Dusk)

  • Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document? We now know pretty well where the various books came from, and about when they were written. We know that they were written by human beings who had no knowledge of science, little knowledge of life, and were influenced by the barbarous morality of primitive times, and were grossly ignorant of most things that men know today.

    Believe   Book   Men  
    "Why I Am an Agnostic: Including Expressions of Faith from a Protestant, a Catholic and a Jew". Book by Clarence Darrow, 1929.
  • The difference between you, if you consider yourself not enlightened, and an enlightened master is not that the enlightened master has more knowledge. University professors have knowledge, and many enlightened masters have very little knowledge. Jesus probably had less knowledge than any university professor alive today in terms of raw information. Even a relatively uneducated person has more information than Jesus or Buddha ever had about things, such as political things and so on.

    Source: rayhemachandra.com
  • Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

    George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.5797, e-artnow
  • I listen to music every day for study reasons, and I confess that I have very little knowledge of what is going on in the hit parades around the world. I have no prejudices for any kind of music genre, and I listen with pleasure to many songs on the radio that my children already know of by heart, while I hear them practically for the first time.

    Song   Children   Heart  
  • In America there is really very little knowledge of the literature of the rest of the world. Of the literature of Latin America, yes, But that's not all that different in inspiration from that of America, or of Europe. One must go further. You don't even have to go too far in terms of geography - you can start with the Native Americans and listen to their poetry.

    Chinua Achebe (2012). “There Was a Country: A Memoir”, p.51, Penguin
  • I really see no harm which can come of giving our children a little knowledge of physiology. ... The instruction must be real, based upon observation, eked out by good explanatory diagrams and models, and conveyed by a teacher whose own knowledge has been acquired by a study of the facts; and not the mere catechismal parrot-work which too often usurps the place of elementary teaching.

    Thomas Henry Huxley (1882). “Science and Culture: And Other Essays”
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