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Men are more readily contented with no intellectual light than with a little; and wherever they have been taught to acquire some knowledge in order to please others, they have most generally gone on to acquire more, to please themselves.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON, Lacon
How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in truth!
As our circle of knowledge expands, so does the circumference of darkness surrounding it.
The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE, letter to his son, Oct. 4, 1746
Ignorance may be bliss, but it certainly is not freedom, except in the minds of those who prefer darkness to light and chains to liberty. The more true information we can acquire, the better for our enfranchisement.
ROBERT HUGH BENSON, Intellectual Slavery
Drugs or overeating or alcohol or sex, it was all just another way to find peace. To escape what we know. Our education. Our bite of the apple.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
ALBERT EINSTEIN, On Science
A baby has brains, but it doesn't know much. Experience is the only thing that brings knowledge, and the longer you are on earth the more experience you are sure to get.
L. FRANK BAUM, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Knowledge shuts a man's mouth.
ERWIN SYLVANUS, Dr. Korczak and the Children
Knowledge is indivisible. When people grow wise in one direction, they are sure to make it easier for themselves to grow wise in other directions as well. On the other hand, when they split up knowledge, concentrate on their own field, and scorn and ignore other fields, they grow less wise -- even in their own field.
ISAAC ASIMOV, The Roving Mind
There is, perhaps, one universal truth about all forms of human cognition: the ability to deal with knowledge is hugely exceeded by the potential knowledge contained in man's environment. To cope with this diversity, man's perception, his memory, and his thought processes early become governed by strategies for protecting his limited capacities from the confusion of overloading. We tend to perceive things schematically, for example, rather than in detail, or we represent a class of diverse things by some sort of averaged "typical instance."
JEROME S. BRUNER, Art as a Mode of Knowing
Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.
GEORGE WASHINGTON, speech to Congress, Jan. 8, 1790
Grace is given of God, but knowledge is bought in the market.
ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH, The Bothie of Tober-na-Vuolich
You must know all there is to know in your particular field and keep on the alert for new knowledge. The least difference in knowledge between you and another man may spell his success and your failure.
HENRY FORD, Theosophist Magazine, Feb. 1930
- Yet with great toil all that I can attain
- By long experience, and in learned schools,
- Is for to know my knowledge is but vain,
- And those that think them wise, are greatest fools.
SIR WILLIAM ALEXANDER, EARL OF STIRLING, The Tragedy of Croesus
No man's knowledge can go beyond his experience.
JOHN LOCKE, Essay Concerning Human Understanding
- Knowledge is proud that he has learn'd so much;
- Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.
Can you avoid knowledge? You cannot! Can you avoid technology? You cannot! Things are going to go ahead in spite of ethics, in spite of your personal beliefs, in spite of everything.
JOSE M.R. DELGADO, Scientific American, October 2005
- Sorrow is Knowledge: they who know the most
- Must mourn the deepest o'er the fatal truth,
- The Tree of Knowledge is not that of Life.
Knowledge itself is power.
FRANCIS BACON, Meditations Sacrae
Those afraid of the universe as it really is, those who pretend to nonexistent knowledge and envision a Cosmos centered on human beings will prefer the fleeting comforts of superstition. They avoid rather than confront the world. But those with the courage to explore the weave and structure of the Cosmos, even where it differs profoundly from their wishes and prejudices, will penetrate its deepest mysteries.
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
ALBERT EINSTEIN, Ideas and Opinions: Based on Mein Weltbild
If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.
MARGARET FULLER, Woman's Day Magazine, Sep. 12, 2007
In a global economy where the most valuable skill you can sell is your knowledge, a good education is no longer just a pathway to opportunity – it is a pre-requisite.
BARACK OBAMA, Address to Joint Session of Congress, Feb. 24, 2009
The function of knowledge is to transcend earthly experience, not to wallow in it.
SUSAN HUBBARD, The Society of S
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