KNOWLEDGE QUOTES VII

quotations about knowledge

Let no one, then, seek to know from me what I know that I do not know; unless he perhaps wishes to learn to be ignorant of that of which all we know is, that it cannot be known.

ST. AUGUSTINE

The City of God

Tags: St. Augustine


Seek knowledge from the purest source.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims


That is the beginning of knowledge--the discovery of something we do not understand.

FRANK HERBERT

God Emperor of Dune


You have to live to really know things.

DAN SIMMONS

Hyperion


The greatest piece of folly is that every man thinks himself compelled to hand down what people think they have known.

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe


Knowledge of the world depends on the power of drawing general inferences from individual examples; and he is the most likely to be correct who has the greatest number of facts at his command.

CHARLES WILLIAM DAY

The Maxims


The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn
When teachers themselves are taught to learn.

BERTOLT BRECHT

Life of Galileo


How dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.

MARY SHELLEY

Frankenstein


Knowledge is proud that he has learn'd so much;
Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.

WILLIAM COWPER

The Task


The world grows more enlightened. Knowledge is more equally diffused.

JOHN ADAMS

Discourses on Davila


I do not approve the maxim which desires a man to know a little of everything. Superficial knowledge, knowledge without principles, is almost always useless and sometimes harmful knowledge.

LUC DE CLAPIERS

MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES, Reflections and Maxims


Knowledge is power. Power to do evil ... or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge itself is not evil.

VERONICA ROTH

Allegiant


Folks don't like to have somebody around knowin' more than they do. It aggravates 'em.

HARPER LEE

To Kill a Mockingbird


The knowledge of man is as the waters, some descending from above, and some springing from beneath: the one informed by the light of nature, the other inspired by divine revelation.

FRANCIS BACON

The Advancement of Learning

Tags: Francis Bacon


Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.

GEORGE WASHINGTON

speech to Congress, Jan. 8, 1790


When the panting and thirsting soul first drinks the delicious waters of truth, when the moral and intellectual tastes and desires first seize the fragrant fruits that flourish in the garden of knowledge, then does the child catch a glimpse and foretaste of heaven.

HORACE MANN

Thoughts


We ought to be ten times as hungry for knowledge as for food for the body.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


The real scholar learns how to evolve the unknown from the known, and draws near the master.

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe


The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.

STEPHEN HAWKING

attributed, The Prism and the Rainbow


It's a hard talk for a man to say I don't know; it hurts his pride: but should not the pretending he does, hurt it much more?

FULKE GREVILLE

Maxims