A Dictionary of Proverbs (Oxford Paperback Reference)

know see also BETTER the devil you know than the devil you don’t know; the FROG in
the well knows nothing of the sea; one HALF of the world does not know how the other half
lives; the HUSBAND is always the last to know; come LIVE with me and you’ll know me;
MORE people know Tom Fool than Tom Fool knows; NECESSITY knows no law; it TAKES
one to know one; it’s not WHAT you know, it’s who you know; it is a WISE child that knows
its own father; see also KNEW; KNOWN.

knoweth see the FAT man knoweth not what the lean thinketh.

KNOWLEDGE is power

Similar in form to MONEY is power and similar in sentiment to PROVERBS xxiv. 5 (AV)
A man of knowledge increaseth strength. Cf. 1597 BACON De Haeresibus x. nam et ipsa
scientia potestas est, for knowledge itself is power.

1598 in Bacon Essays 27 V Knowledge it selfe is a power whereby he [God] knoweth.

1806 B. RUSH Letter 25 Nov. (1951) II. 935 The well-known aphorism that ‘knowledge

is power.’ 1853 BULWER-LYTTON My Novel I. II. iii. He.. said half aloud,—’Well,

knowledge is power!’ 2002 Washington Post 11 Mar. A21 The assumption seems to be

that if we can explain the powerful forces that control our lives, we become somehow

immune to them. Knowledge, as they say, is power. power; wisdom

knowledge see also a LITTLE knowledge is a dangerous thing.

known see a CARPENTER is known by his chips; a man is known by the COMPANY he
keeps; the TREE is known by its fruit.

Who KNOWS most, speaks least

1666 G. TORRIANO Italian Proverbs 189 Who knows most, speaks least. 1996 p.

LOVESEY Bloodhounds xxi. 182 ‘Crafty old sod,’ said Mr. Musgrave. .. ‘What’s the old

saying? “Who knows most, speaks least.”’ speech and silence

The KUMARA does not speak of its own sweetness