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The utmost extent of man's knowledge,
is to know that he knows nothing.
--Joseph Addison (1672—1719)
English essayist, poet, and dramatist.
"Essay on Pride"

Some drink deeply from the river of
knowledge. Others only gargle.
--Woody Allen [Allen Stewart Konigsberg] (1935— )
American actor, screenwriter, and director.

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Knowledge is power.
[Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est.]
--Francis Bacon (1561—1626)
English philosopher and essayist.
_Meditationes Sacrae_ [1597] "De Haersibus"


Some men covet knowledge out of a natural curiosity
and inquisitive temper; some to entertain the mind
with variety and delight; some for ornament and
reputation; some for victory and contention; many
for lucre and a livelihood; and but few for employing
the Divine gift of reason to the use and benefit of
mankind.
--Francis Bacon (1561—1626)
English philosopher and essayist.
_Advancement of Learning_ [1605]

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If I were younger, I'd know more.
--Sir James Matthew Barrie (1860—1937)
Scottish writer and dramatist.

As long as you think you are green, you will continue
to grow, and as soon as you think you are ripe, you
are rotten.
--K.S. Bhargava

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For in much wisdom is much grief, and he that
increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
--Bible
"Ecclesiastes" 1:18


Profess not the knowledge . . . that thou hast not.
--Bible
"Apocrypha", Ecclesiasticus 3:25

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It iz better tew know nothing than two know what ain't so.
--Josh Billings [Henry Wheeler Shaw] (1818—1885)
American humorist.
_Everybody's Friend, or Josh Billings' Encyclopedia
and Proverbial Philosphy of Wit and Humor_ [1874]

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Better know nothing than half-know many things.
--Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844—1900)
German classical scholar, philosopher, and critic of culture.
_Thus Spake Zarathustra_ [1883—1891] pt. IV, 64

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Dr. Johnson was very kind this evening, and said to
me, "You have now lived five-and-twenty years, and
you have employed them well."

"Alas, Sir, (said I,) I fear not. Do I know history?
Do I know mathematicks? Do I know law?"

[Dr. Johnson replied:] "Why, Sir, though you may
know no science so well as to be able to teach it,
and no profession so well as to be able to follow
it, your general mass of knowledge of books and men
renders you very capable to make yourself master of
any science, or fit yourself for any profession."

--James Boswell (1740—1795)
Scottish lawyer, diarist, and author.
_The Life of Samuel Johnson_ [1791], "February 1766"

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He who knows not, and knows not that he knows not, is a fool.
Shun him. He who knows not, and knows that he knows not is
simple. Teach him. He who knows, and knows not that he knows,
is asleep. Wake him. He who knows, and knows that he knows is
wise. Follow him.
--Lady Isabel Burton (1831—1896)

That there should one Man die ignorant who had
capacity for Knowledge, this I call a Tragedy.
--Thomas Carlyle (1795—1881)
Scottish historian and political philosopher.
_Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufeldrockh_, 3.4 [1835]

When I was young, I said to God, 'God, tell me the mystery of the
universe.' But God answered, 'that knowledge is for me alone.' So I
said, 'God, tell me the mystery of the peanut.' Then God said, 'Well,
George, that's more nearly your size.'
--George Washington Carver (1864—1943)
American agricultural chemist and agronomist.

He had the same trouble as all intellectuals: He
knew too many things, and they confused him.
--Louis-Ferdinand Cιline [Louis Ferdinand Destouches] (1894—1961)
French author and doctor.
_Journey to the End of the Night_ (Voyage au bout de la nuit) [1932]

Why are not more gems from our great
authors scattered over the country? Let
every bookworm, when in any fragrant,
scarce, old tome he discovers a sentence,
a story, an illustration, that does his
heart good, hasten to give it.
--Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772—1834)
English poet, critic, and philosopher.

We owe almost all our knowledge not to those who
have agreed but to those who have differed.
--C.C. Colton (1780—1832)
English clergyman and writer.
_Lacon: or, Many Things in Few Words;
Addressed to Those Who Think_ [1866 ed., p. 318]

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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 — that is knowledge.
--Confucius (551—479 B.C.)
K'ung Ch'iu, Chinese philosopher.
_The Confucian Analects_ bk. 2:17


Real knowledge is to know the extent
of one's ignorance.
--Confucius (551—479 B.C.)
K'ung Ch'iu, Chinese philosopher.
_The Confucian Analects_


Be an exemplary man of learning, not a trivial pedant.
--Confucius (551—479 B.C.)
K'ung Ch'iu, Chinese philosopher.
_The Confucian Analects_ bk. 6:13

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I am but a gatherer, and a disposer of other men's stuff.
If the world like it not, so much the worse for them.
--William Cowper (1731—1800)
English poet and hymnodist.


Knowledge is proud that he has learn'd so much;
Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.
--William Cowper (1731—1800)
English poet and hymnodist.
_The Task_ [1785] bk. 6 "Winter Walk at Noon", l. 96

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She knows wot's wot, she does.
--Charles Dickens (1812—1870)
English novelist.
_The Pickwick Papers_, ch. 37 [1837]

There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge
available to us: observation of nature, reflection, and
experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection
combines them; experimentation verifies the result of
that combination. Our observation of nature must be
diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments
exact. We rarely see these three means combined;
and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.
--Denis Diderot (1713—1784)
French writer and philosopher.
_On the Interpretation of Nature_, # 15 [1753]

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My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business
to know what other people don't know.
--Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859—1930)
Scottish-born writer of detective fiction.
_The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle_ [1892]


My surprise reached a climax, however, when I
found incidentally that he was ignorant of the
Copernican Theory and of the composition of the
Solar System. That any civilized human being in
this nineteenth century should not be aware that
the earth travelled round the sun appeared to be
to me such an extraordinary fact that I could
hardly realize it.

"You appear to be astonished," he said, smiling
at my expression of surprise. "Now that I do
know it I shall do my best to forget it."

"To forget it!"

"You see," he explained, "I consider that a man's
brain originally is 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 which might
be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is
jumbled up with a lot of other things so that he has
a difficulty in laying his hands upon it. Now the
skilful workman is very careful indeed as to what
he takes into his brain-attic. He will have nothing
but the tools which may help him in doing his work,
but of these he has a large assortment, and all in
the most perfect order. It is a mistake to think that
that little room has elastic walls and can distend to
any extent. Depend upon it there comes a time
when for every addition of knowledge you forget
something that you knew before. It is of the
highest importance, therefore, not to have
useless facts elbowing out the useful ones."

--Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859—1930)
Scottish-born writer of detective fiction.
_A Study in Scarlet_, ch. 2 [1887]

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Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing; education
is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
--Will Durant (1885—1981)
American philosopher and writer.

We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
--attributed to Thomas Alva Edison (1847—1931)
American inventor.

Somebody who reads only newspapers and at best books
of contemporary authors looks to me like an extremely
nearsighted man who scorns eyeglasses. He is completely
dependent on the prejudices and fashions of his times,
since he never gets to see or hear anything else.
--Albert Einstein (1879—1955)
German-American physicist who developed the
special and general theories of relativity.
In _Ideas and Opinions_ [1954] "On Classic Literature" [February 1952].

Someone said: 'The dead writers are remote from us because
we *know* so much more than they did.' Precisely, and they
are that which we know.
--T.S. Eliot (1888—1965)
Anglo-American poet, critic, and dramatist.
_The Sacred Wood_ [1920] "Tradition and the Individual Talent"

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
--Benjamin Franklin (1706—1790)
American politician, inventor, and scientist.

[That] wise, ingenuous and modest sentence,
"I know it not."
--Galileo Galilei (1564—1642)
Tuscan astronomer and physicist.

Everything has been said before, but since
nobody listens we have to keep going back
and beginning all over again.
--Andre Gide (1869—1951)
French novelist and critic who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1947.
_Le traite' du Narcisse_ [1891]

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The close and thoughtful observer more and more learns to
recognize his limitations. He realizes that with the steady
growth of knowledge more and more new problems keep
on emerging.
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749—1832)
German poet, novelist, and playwright.


Philosophy have I digested,
The whole of Law and Medicine,
From each its secrets I have wrested,
Theology, alas, thrown in.
Poor fool, with all this sweated lore,
I stand no wiser than I was before.
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749—1832)
German poet, novelist, and playwright.
_Faust_, tr. Philip Wayne [1959]

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Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain,
With grammar, and nonsense, and learning;
Good liquor, I stoutly maintain,
Gives genius a better discerning.
--Oliver Goldsmith (1728—1774)
Anglo-Irish writer, poet, and dramatist.
_She Stoops to Conquer_ [1773]

Where ignorance is bliss,
'Tis folly to be wise.
--Thomas Gray (1716—1771)
English poet.
"Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College" l. 19 [1747]

But if you happen to have any learning, keep it
a profound secret, especially from the men, who
generally look with a jealous and malignant eye
on a woman of great parts and a cultivated
understanding. A man of real genius and candour
is far superior to this mean-ness. But such a one
will seldom fall in your way.
--John Gregory, advice to his daughters,
"Scots Magazine" [1774].

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom.
--Hermann Hesse (1877—1962)
German novelist, poet, and winner of the
Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946.
_Siddhartha_, ch. 2 [1922]

Far more crucial than what we know or do not
know is what we do not want to know.
--Eric Hoffer (1902—1983)
American longshoreman, philosopher, and author who
received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1982.
_The Passionate State of Mind: And Other Aphorisms_, 38 [1954]

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'You don't like van Gogh?' he countered. 'Then name me six of
his paintings and tell me why you don't like them.' I couldn't, of
course, and he said, 'Leave the room, and until you know what
you're talking about, don't come back with your opinions to the
dinner table.'
--Anjelica Huston (1951— )
American actress.
Speaking of her father, John Huston.

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Ours is a world in which knowledge accumulates
and wisdom decays.
--Aldous Huxley (1894—1963)
English novelist (grandson of T.H. Huxley.)
"Censorship and Spoken Literature" in
_Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Other Essays_ [1956].

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If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the
man who has so much as to be out of danger?
--T.H. (Thomas Henry) Huxley (1825—1895)
English biologist {grandfather of Aldous Huxley}.
"On Elementary Instruction in Physiology," [1877]
_Collected Essays_, vol. 3 [1895]


The great end of life is not
knowledge but action.
--T.H. (Thomas Henry) Huxley (1825—1895)
English biologist; grandfather of Aldous Huxley.
"Technical Education" [1877]

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I was at that age when a man knows least and is most vain
of his knowledge; and when he is extremely tenacious in
defending his opinion upon subjects about which he knows
nothing.
--Washington Irving (1783—1859)
American writer.
"Buckthorne; or, the Young Man of Great Expectations," in
_Tales of a Traveller_ [1824]

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Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless,
and knowledge without integrity is dangerous
and dreadful.
--Samuel Johnson (1709—1784)
English poet, critic, and lexicographer.


Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves,
or we know where we can find information on it. When
we enquire into any subject, the first thing we have to
do is to know what books have treated of it.
--Samuel Johnson (1709—1784)
English poet, critic, and lexicographer.
In James Boswell _The Life of Samuel Johnson_ [1791].

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Old age was naturally more honored in times when people
could not know much more than what they had seen.
--Joseph Joubert (1754—1824)
French philosopher.

I think this is the most extraordinary collection of
talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been
gathered together at the White House with the
possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson
dined alone.
--John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917—1963)
American Democratic statesman, President of the U.S. [1961—1963].
Address at a White House dinner and reception honoring
Nobel Prize winners [April 1962].

I keep six honest serving men
(They taught me all I knew);
Their names are What and Why and When
And How and Where and Who.
--Rudyard Kipling (1865—1936)
English writer and poet.
In _Just So Stories_ [1902] "The Elephant's Child."

One may know the world without going out of doors.
--Lao-tzu (c. 6th cent. B.C.)
The first philosopher of Chinese Taoism and alleged author of
the _Tao-te Ching_ (Chinese: Classic of the Way of Power).
_The Way of Lao-Tzu_, #47

All that we know is nothing, we are merely
crammed waste-paper baskets, unless we
are in touch with that which laughs at all
our knowing.
--D.H. (David Herbert) Lawrence (1885—1930)
English novelist and poet.
_Pansies_ [1929] "Peace and War"

When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch's
statement that the elder Cato began at the age
of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer.
Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth
shirked because they would take too long.
--W. Somerset Maugham (1874—1965)
English novelist, playwright, and short-story writer.

It is common to assume that human progress affects everyone — that
even the dullest man, in these bright days, knows more than any man
of, say, the Eighteenth Century, and is far more civilized. This assumption
is quite erroneous. The men of the educated minority, no doubt, know
more than their predecessors, and of some of them, perhaps, it may be
said that they are more civilized — though I should not like to be put to
giving names — but the great masses of men, even in this inspired republic,
are precisely where the mob was at the dawn of history. They are ignorant,
they are dishonest, they are cowardly, they are ignoble. They know little
if anything that is worth knowing, and there is not the slightest sign of a
natural desire among them to increase their knowledge.
--H.L. (Henry Louis) Mencken (1880—1956)
American journalist and literary critic.

In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase
the horizon of ignorance.
--Henry Miller (1891—1980)
American novelist and essayist.
_The Wisdom of the Heart_ [1941]

What I have learned bears no other fruit than to
make me realize how much I still have to learn.
--Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533—1592)
French moralist and essayist.
"Of Experience", _Essays_ [1588]

Acquire knowledge. It enables its possessor to distinguish right
from wrong; it lights the way to Heaven; it is our friend in the
desert, our society in solitude, our companion when friendless;
it guides us to happiness; it sustains us in misery; it is an
ornament among friends and an armor against enemies.
--Muhammad (A.D. 570?—632)
Prophet to whom the religion of Islam was revealed.
_The Sayings of Muhammad_, 290, tr. Abdullah Al-Suhrawardy [1941]

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to
myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on
the seashore, and diverting myself now and then finding
a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary,
whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered
before me.
--Sir Isaac Newton (1642—1727)
English mathematician and physicist.
In David Brewster {ed.} _Memoirs of the Life, Writings,
and Discoveries of Sir Isaac Newton_ [1855], v. II, ch. 27.

Four be the things I am wiser to know:
Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.
Four be the things I'd been better without:
Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt.
Three be the things I shall never attain:
Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
Three be the things I shall have till I die:
Laughter and hope and a sock in the eye.
--Dorothy Parker (1893—1967)
American critic and humorist.
"Inventory" [1926]

He who has more knowledge than judgment is
made for another man's use more than his own.
--William Penn (1644—1718)
Quaker leader and advocate of religious freedom who oversaw
the founding of the American Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as
a refuge for Quakers and other religious minorities of Europe.

You are young my son, and, as the years go by, time will
change and even reverse many of your present opinions.
Refrain, therefore, a while from setting yourself up as
a judge of the highest matters.
--Plato (427?—347 B.C.)
Greek philosopher.

A little learning is a dangerous thing;
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
--Alexander Pope (1688—1744)
English poet.
"An Essay on Criticism" [1711]

Do not be arrogant because of your knowledge,
but confer with the ignorant man as with the
learned. . . . Good speech is more hidden than
malachite, yet it is found in the possession of
women slaves at the millstones.
--Ptahhotpe
24th century B.C. philosopher.
_The Maxims of Ptahhotpe_ [c. 2350 BC]

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There is much pleasure to be gained from
useless knowledge.
--Bertrand Russell (1872—1970)
British philosopher, mathematician, and Nobel laureate.


I've made an odd discovery. Everytime I talk to a genius
I feel quite sure that joy and happiness is no longer a
possibility. Yet, when I talk with my gardener, I'm
convinced of the opposite; joy and happiness is just
around the corner.
--Bertrand Russell (1872—1970)
British philosopher, mathematician, and Nobel laureate.

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As we acquire more knowledge, things do
not become more comprehensible, but
more mysterious.
--Albert Schweitzer (1875—1965)
Franco-German theologian, philosopher, and mission doctor.

It is better, of course, to know useless
things than to know nothing.
--Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BC—65 A.D.)
Roman philosopher and poet.

Our knowledge is a little island in
a great ocean of non-knowledge.
--Isaac Bashevis Singer (1904—1991)
Polish-American novelist who won the 1978 Nobel Prize for Literature.
Richard Burgin interview in "New York Times Magazine" [3 December 1978].

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
--Socrates (470?—399 B.C.)
Greek philosopher.
In Diogenes Laertius _Lives of the Philosophers_.

Being in a position to know and nevertheless shunning
knowledge creates direct responsibility for the
consequences — from the beginning.
--Albert Speer (1905—1981)
First architect of the Third Reich.

When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more
knowledge he has, the greater will be his confusion.
--Herbert Spencer (1820—1903)
English philosopher.
_The Principles of Sociology_ [1876-1896]

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Charles Proteus Steinmetz (1865—1923)
American electrical engineer.

After retiring, Steinmetz was recalled by General
Electric to try to locate a breakdown in a complex
system of machines. The cause of the breakdown
baffled all GE's experts. Steinmetz spent some
time walking around and testing various parts
of the machine complex. Finally, he took out
of his pocket a piece of chalk and marked an
X on a particular part of one machine. The GE
people disassembled the machine, discovering
to their amazement that the defect lay precisely
where Steinmetz's chalk mark was located.

Some days later GE received a bill from Steinmetz
for $10,000. They protested the amount and asked
him to itemize it. He sent back an itemized bill:

Making one chalk mark $1
Knowing where to place it $9,999

--_Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes_
edited by Clifton Fadiman and Andrι Bernard [2000 ed.]

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Desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches,
increases ever with the acquisition of it.
--Laurence Sterne (1713—1768)
English novelist.
_Tristram Shandy_ [1760], Bk. II, Chapter 3

Knowledge is good. It does not have to look good or sound good
or even do good. It is good just by being knowledge. And the
only thing that makes it knowledge is that it is true. You can't
have too much of it and there is no little too little to be
worth having.
--Tom Stoppard [Tomas Straussler] (1937— )
Czech-born British playwright.
"The Invention of Love" [1997]

It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance,
for it requires knowledge to perceive it; and, therefore, he
that can perceive it hath it not.
--Jeremy Taylor (1613—1667)
English Anglican clergyman and writer.
Quoted in Tryon Edwards _A Dictionary of Thoughts_, p. 244 [1908 ed.].

What the first philosopher taught the
last will have to repeat.
--Henry David Thoreau (1817—1862)
American essayist, poet, and practical philosopher.
_Journal_ [1840]

It is better to ask some of the questions
than to know all the answers.
--James Thurber (1894—1961)
American humorist and cartoonist.
"The Scotty Who Knew Too Much,"
_Fables for Our Time_ [1940]

The only thing that we know is that we know nothing
and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.
--Leo Tolstoy (1828—1910)
Russian novelist.

It's not what you know, but who you know.
--"Washington Post" [1 March 1952]

People cannot learn by having information pressed
into their brains. Knowledge has to be sucked into
the brain, not pushed in. First, one must create a
state of mind that craves knowledge, interest and
wonder. You can teach only by creating an urge
to know.
--Victor Weisskopf (1908—2002)
Austrian-American physicist.
_The Privilege of Being a Physicist_

Beware you are not swallowed up in books: an
ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
--John Wesley (1703—1791)
English preacher and founder, with his brother Charles,
of the Methodist movement in the Church of England.
Letter to Joseph Benson [7 November 1768].

I am not young enough to know everything.
--Oscar Wilde (1854—1900)
Anglo-Irish dramatist and poet.

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just
to enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate — that's
my philosophy.
--Thornton Wilder (1897—1975)
American novelist and dramatist.
"The Skin of Our Teeth" [1942]

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With reference to the word "umbrage". Many years ago whilst I was
still a resident of the "Green and pleasant land called England" there
was a TV show which I watched fairly regularly. It was called
Panorama and was hosted by a gentleman by the name of
Richard Dimbleby who was known for being factual,
straight-forward, truthful and informative.

He did, however, have a wicked sense of humour. During one
programme he made the comment along the lines of, "If someone
upsets you, take umbrage." Complaints soon poured in from the
drug-stores that people were lining up and demanding to be sold
a bottle of umbrage. The result was that on the following
programme, Richard Dimbleby made an announcement that
explained what umbrage meant.

--Jan, alt.fifty-plus.friends, (reprinted with permission)

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Not to know is bad; not to wish to know is worse.
--Nigerian Proverb

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afflatus [uh-FLAY-tuhs], noun:
A divine imparting of knowledge; inspiration.

arcane [ar-KAYN], adjective:
Understood or known by only a few.

arcanum [ar-KAY-nuhm], noun;
1. A secret; a mystery.
2. Specialized or mysterious knowledge, language, or
information that is not accessible to the average person
(generally used in the plural).

bailiwick (noun)
1. The district, office, or jurisdiction of a British
bailiff.
2. A person's area of interest or expertise.
Example: Philosophy is not his bailiwick.
Syn.: domain
Related: orbit, area, circle.

cognoscente [kon-yuh-SHEN-tee; kog-nuh-; -SEN-], noun;
plural cognoscenti -tee: A person with special knowledge of a subject;
a connoisseur.
Ex.: However, I thought it well to acquaint myself with the latest scientific thinking,
so as not to write a tale that would embarrass me among the cognoscenti.
--Ronald Wright _A Scientific Romance_

epistemology (noun) [κ-pis-tκ-'mah-lκ-jee or -ji]
(Philosophy) The study of the nature of knowledge:
suppositions, and conclusions — how we know things;
the structure of knowledge itself.

maven (noun) [ 'mey-vn]
An expert or connoisseur; someone with
profound knowledge of a subject.

pansophist (noun) [pζn-'so-fist]
Someone who leaves the impression that
they know everything; a "know-it-all."

prescient (adj.) ['pre-shκnt]
Having knowledge beforehand.

recondite (adj.) ['re-kκn-dIt]
Deep, profound, complex (knowledge, understanding); secret, hidden,
out of view (motivation, principles); obscure, abstruse (source, cause).

sciolism [SY-uh-liz-uhm], noun:
Superficial knowledge; a superficial show of learning.

verdant [VUR-dnt], adjective:
1. Covered with growing plants or grass; green with vegetation.
2. Green.
3. Unripe in knowledge, judgment, or experience;
unsophisticated; green.
Ex.: Drab in winter, then suddenly sodden with alpine
runoff, the region turns dazzlingly verdant in spring.
--Patricia Albers,
"Shadows, Fire, Snow"


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