Proverbs:

A doctor and a boor know more than a doctor alone.
German
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
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A man knows no more to any purpose than he practises.
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All our knowledge is ourselves to know.
Pope
All we know is nothing can be known.
Byron
Government of the will is better than increase of knowledge.
*
Half our knowledge we must snatch, not take.
Pope
He hath a tun of knowledge but the bottom is out.
Dutch
He knows enough who knows how to live and keep his own counsel.
French
He knows which side of his bread is buttered.
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He that imagines he hath knowledge enough hath none.
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He that knows himself knows others.
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He that knows least commonly presumes most.
*
He that knows little soon repeats it.
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He that would know what shall be must consider what hath been.
*
He who increases knowledge increases sorrow.
Latin
He who knows but little tells it quickly.
Italian
He who knows himself best, esteems himself least.
*
Hidden knowledge differs little from ignorance.
Horace
I envy no man that knows more than myself but pity them that know less.
Sir Thomas Browne
I know no difference between buried treasure and concealed knowledge.
Italian
It is almost as necessary to know other men as ourselves.
*
It is not permitted to know all things.
Latin
It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which is valuable.
Samuel Sorbiere
It is well for one to know more than he says.
Plautus
It requires a long time to know any one.
Don Quixote
Know then thyself, presume not God to scan;
The proper study of mankind is man.
Pope
Knowledge begins a gentleman but ’tis conversation that completes him.
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Knowledge comes but wisdom lingers.
Tennyson
Knowledge directeth practice and practice increaseth knowledge.
*
Knowledge finds its price.
La Fontaine
Knowledge in youth is wisdom in age.
*
Knowledge is a second light and hath bright eyes.
*
Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.
*
Knowledge is no burden.
*
Knowledge is power.
Bacon
Knowledge is silver among the poor, gold among the nobles, and a jewel among princes.
Italian
Knowledge is the foundation of eloquence.
Benjamin Disraeli
Knowledge must be gained by ourselves.
Benjamin Disraeli
Knowledge or wealth to few are given,
But mark how just the ways of Heaven:
True joy is free to all.
Mickle
Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.
Horace
Knowledge without practice makes but half an artist.
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Learn thou of learned men, the unlearned of thee;
For thus must knowledge propagated be.
Dutch
No man knows till he has tasted both fortunes.
*
No one knows what will happen to him before sunset.
*
No one knows when he is well off.
Punch
Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to continue always a child.
Seneca
One part of knowledge consists in being ignorant of such things as are not worthy to be known.
*
Profess not the knowledge thou hast not.
Bible
The first step to self-knowledge is self-distrust.
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The more a man knows the more he is inclined to be modest.
Fielding
The only jewel which will not decay is knowledge.
Langford
The seeds of knowledge may be planted in solitude but must be cultivated in public.
Dr. Johnson
There is no knowledge so dangerous as half-knowledge.
Stilson Hutchins
Through being too knowing the fox lost his tail.
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To know a man well, one must have eaten a bushel of salt with him.
French
To know everything is to know nothing.
Italian
To know how to obey requires as generous a disposition and as rational an education as to know how to command.
Plato
To know nothing is the happiest life.
Euripides
To know one perfectly one must live in the same house with him.
*
To know one’s self is true progress.
Hans Andersen
To know the disease is the commencement of the cure.
Don Quixote
Whatever I did not know, I was not ashamed to inquire about, so I acquired knowledge.
Persian Philosopher
Who knows most believes least.
Italian
Who knows most forgives most.
Italian
Who knows most says least.
French
Who knows nothing, doubts nothing.
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Who knows nothing in his thirtieth year, is nothing in his fortieth, has nothing in his fiftieth, learns nothing, is nothing, and comes to nothing.
German
Without knowledge there is no sin.
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Your knowing a thing is nothing unless another knows you know it.
Latin
Proverbs theme "Knowledge" in English
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