KNOWLEDGE QUOTES VII

quotations about knowledge

There's a vast difference between having a carload of miscellaneous facts sloshing around loose in your head and getting all mixed up in transit, and carrying the same assortment properly boxed and crated for convenient handling and immediate delivery.

GEORGE HORACE LORIMER

Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son


We just do not see how very specialized the use of "I know" is.

LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN

On Certainty


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


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

BERTOLT BRECHT

Life of Galileo


Seek knowledge from the purest source.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims


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

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


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


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


You have to live to really know things.

DAN SIMMONS

Hyperion


If there's anything worse than knowing too little, it's knowing too much. Education will broaden a narrow mind, but there's no known cure for a big head. The best you can hope is that it will swell up and bust.

GEORGE HORACE LORIMER

Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son


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


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


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

STEPHEN HAWKING

attributed, The Prism and the Rainbow


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

WILLIAM COWPER

The Task


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


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

JOHN ADAMS

Discourses on Davila


Our human knowledge is a candle burnt
On a dim altar to a sun-vast Truth.

SRI AUROBINDO

Gems from Sri Aurobindo


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


Knowledge grows exponentially. The more we know, the greater our ability to learn, and the faster we expand our knowledge base.

DAN BROWN

The Lost Symbol


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

HARPER LEE

To Kill a Mockingbird