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He who knows not and knows not he knows not, he is a fool-shun him;

He who knows not and knows he knows not, he is simple teach him;

He who knows and knows not he knows, he is asleep-wake him;

He who knows and knows he knows, he is wisefollow him!

LADY BURTON-Life of Sir Richard Burton. Given as an Arabian Proverb. Another rendering in the Spectator, Aug. 11, 1894. P. 176. In HESIOD-Works and Days. 293. 7. Quoted by ARISTOTLE-Nic. Eth. I. 4. CICERO Pro Cluent. 31. LIvy-Works. XXII. 29.

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There's lots of people-this town wouldn't hold them;

Who don't know much excepting what's told them.

WILL CARLETON-City Ballads. P. 143.

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For love is ever the beginning of Knowledge, as fire is of light.

CARLYLE-Essays. Death of Goethe.

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What is all Knowledge too but recorded Experience, and a product of History; of which, therefore, Reasoning and Belief, no less than Action and Passion, are essential materials? CARLYLE-Essays. On History.

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Ne quis nimis. (From the Greek.)
Know thyself.

Inscription attributed to CHILO OF THALES,
PYTHAGORAS, SOLON, on the Temple of
Apollo at Delphi.

(See also CICERO, COLERIDGE, DIOGENES, JUENAL, LA FONTAINE, TERENCE)

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Nam non solum scire aliquid, artis est, sec. quædam ars etiam docendi.

Not only is there an art in knowing a thing, but also a certain art in teaching it. CICERO De Legibus. II. 19.

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And is this the prime

XXXIV.

And heaven-sprung message of the olden time? COLERIDGE. Referring to "Know thyself." (See also CHILO)

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When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it; this is knowledge. CONFUCIUS-Analects. Bk. II. Ch. XVII. (See also SOCRATES)

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Knowledge and Wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connexion. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men, Wisdom in minds attentive to their own. COWPER-The Task. Bk. VI. L. 88. "Knowledge dwells," etc., found in: MILTONParadise Lost. VII. SELDON-Table Talk. YOUNG-Satires. VI. Night Thoughts. V.

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Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.

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But ask not bodies (doomed to die),

To what abode they go;

Since knowledge is but sorrow's spy,

It is not safe to know.

DAVENANT The Just Italian. Act V. Sc. 1.

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Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

SAMUEL JOHNSON-Boswell's Life of Johnson. (1775)

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Thales was asked what was very difficult; he Knowledge is more than equivalent to force. said: "To know one's self."

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SAMUEL JOHNSON-Rasselas. Ch. XIII.

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(See also BACON)

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Not if I know myself at all.

CHARLES LAMB-Essays of Elia. The Old and the New Schoolmaster.

22 Wer viel weiss

Hat viel zu sorgen.

He who knows much has many cares. LESSING-Nathan der Weise. IV. 2.

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The improvement of the understanding is for two ends: first, for our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver and make out that knowledge to others.

LOCKE Some Thoughts Concerning Reading and Study. Appendix B.

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"Tain't a knowin' kind of cattle

Thet is ketched with mouldy corn.

LOWELL-Biglow Papers. No. 1. L. 3.

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Scire est nescire, nisi id me scire alius scierit. To know is not to know, unless someone else has known that I know.

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Quid nobis certius ipsis Sensibus esse potest? qui vera ac falso notemus. What can give us more sure knowledge than our senses? How else can we distinguish between the true and the false?

LUCRETIUS-De Rerum Natura. I. 700.

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