the more one knows, the more ...
Fixed expression used to show that as knowledge increases, a related quality or feeling also intensifies. Often followed by an adjective or verb in the comparative or superlative sense.
The more you know, the more you understand the difficulty of this problem.
The more I get to know him, the more I like him.
Lexicalized phrase from the conditional form of 知る (shiru, 'to know') repeated with the particle ほど (hodo, 'extent'), following the pattern ～ば～ほど ('the more ... the more ...').