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They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance. -- Terry Pratchett
I ain't one of those who believe that a half knowledge of a subject is useless, but it has been my experience that when a fellow has that half knowledge he finds it's the other half which would really come in handy. -- George Horace Lorimer
Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other. -- Novalis
Half-knowledge is worse than ignorance. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
A thorough knowledge of the elements takes us more than half the road to mastership -- Aron Nimzowitsch
The ultimate end...is not knowledge, but action. To be half right on time may be more important than to obtain the whole truth too late. -- Aristotle
Knowledge is soon changed, then lost in the mist, an echo half-heard. -- Gene Wolfe
No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge. -- Khalil Gibran
Wild Bill was anything but a quarrelsome man yet I have personal knowledge of at least half a dozen men whom he had at various times killed. -- Buffalo Bill
When we think about the workplace, people think about hard skills being dominant, but they're not. The employer realizes knowledge will shift quickly, and there's a half-life to knowledge in this world. -- Gerald Chertavian
English girls' schools today providing the higher education are, so far as my knowledge goes, worthily representative of that astonishing rise in the intellectual standards of women which has taken place in the last half-century. -- Mary Augusta Ward
He surprised me by his familiarity with details of movements and battles which I did not suppose had come to his knowledge. As he kept me talking for over half an hour, I flattered myself that what I had to say interested him. -- Henry Villard
The knowledge of my sin Is half-repentance. -- Bayard Taylor
The consequences of a plethora of half-digested theoretical knowledge are deplorable. -- Alfred North Whitehead
In vain sedate reflections we would make When half our knowledge we must snatch, not take. -- Alexander Pope
Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more. -- Seneca the Younger
No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge. -- Kahlil Gibran
It is not, in fact, cookery books that we need half so much as cooks really trained to a knowledge of their duties. -- Eliza Acton
Half the worry in the world is caused by people trying to make decisions before they have sufficient knowledge on which to base a decision. -- Dean Hawkes
To maintain nice relation with the people is half of intelligence, nice questioning is half of knowledge, and nice domestic arrangements is half of the management of livelihood. -- Ali ibn Abi Talib

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