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Knowledge is defined (Oxford English Dictionary) variously as (i) expertise, and skills acquired by a person through experience or education; the theoretical or practical understanding of a subject, (ii) what is known in a particular field or in total; facts and information or (iii) awareness or familiarity gained by experience of a fact or situation. Philosophical debates in general start with Plato's formulation of knowledge as "justified true belief". There is however no single agreed... full article at wikipedia

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I am not young enough to know everything.	Oscar Wilde
The specialist is one who never makes small mistakes while moving toward the grand fallacy.	Marshall McLuhan
If you have knowledge, let others light their candles with it.	Winston Churchill
Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.	Earl of Chesterfield
No man knows less than the man who knows it all		Unknown
Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.	E. E. Cummings
The trouble with the world is not that people know too little, but that they know so many things that ain't so.	Mark Twain
Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.	William James
Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them.	Earl of Chesterfield
True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.	James Russell Lowell
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