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  • Librarians are wonderful people, partly because they are, on the whole, unaware of how dangerous knowledge is. Karl Marx upended the political landscape of the twentieth century sitting at a library table. Still, modern librarians are more afraid of ingnorance than they are of the potential devastation that knowledge can bring. (p. 192) -- Walter Mosley
  • Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance. -- George Bernard Shaw
  • If a little knowledge was a dangerous thing, a lot was lethal. -- Tom Sharpe
  • Knowledge itself is never dangerous, it is how that knowledge is used that is dangerous -- Michael Scott
  • Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. -- Samuel Johnson
  • A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but a little want of knowledge is also a dangerous thing. -- Samuel Butler
  • If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger? -- Thomas Huxley
  • A little knowledge is a dangerous thing - it only hastens fools to rush in where angels fear to tread. -- Samuel Johnson
  • They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance. -- Terry Pratchett
  • There are few things more dangerous in a democracy than allowing a President to wage secret wars without the knowledge of the country. -- Glenn Greenwald
  • We get more dangerous as we accumulate knowledge, and that's both a sadness and something to control, try to learn to live with, make terms with. -- Lou Harrison
  • In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win. -- George Bernard Shaw
  • Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow. -- Mary Wollstonecraft
  • Knowledge is dangerous." ~pg 53 -- Patrick Ness
  • Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous. -- Frank Herbert
  • Knowledge without practice is useless. Practice without knowledge is dangerous. -- Confucius
  • A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot. -- Albert Einstein
  • A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot. -- Albert Einstein
  • A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. I regret that this isn't fatal. -- Erik Naggum
  • You can't take away knowledge, and it's dangerous to pretend you never had it. -- Cynthia Heimel
  • A little knowledge is a dangerous thing." - Harkat Mulds (Hunters of the Dusk) -- Darren Shan
  • It must certainly be more dangerous to live in ignorance than to live with knowledge. -- Frank Herbert
  • Knowledge is dangerous and men lie and the world changes, whether I want it to or not. -- Patrick Ness
  • For we can only know that we know nothing, and a little knowledge is a dangerous thing. -- Zhuangzi
  • But shortcuts are dangerous; we cannot delude ourselves that our knowledge is further along than it actually is. -- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
  • Knowledge is dangerous. Once you know something, you can't get rid of it. You have to carry it. Always. -- Samantha Shannon
  • Knowledge is dangerous, which is why governments often clamp down on people who can think thoughts above a certain caliber. -- Terry Pratchett
  • Dangerous thing, giving humanity the knowledge of good and evil. And the capacity to make the wrong choice more often than not. -- Lawrence Block
  • Knowledge, like all things, is best in moderation," intoned the Will. "Knowing everything means you don't need to think, and that is very dangerous. -- Garth Nix
  • 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. -- Leonard J. V. Compagno
  • Self-knowledge is a dangerous thing, tending to make man shallow or insane. -- Karl Shapiro
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