KNOWLEDGE QUOTES V

quotations about knowledge

Learned men fall into error oftenest by mistaking knowledge for wisdom.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought


Knowledge alone doth not amount to Virtue; but certainly there is no Virtue without Knowledge.

BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE

Moral and Religious Aphorisms


Knowledge without conscience is but the ruin of the soul.

FRANÇOIS RABELAIS

Pantagruel


We can't define anything precisely. If we attempt to, we get into that paralysis of thought that comes to philosophers… one saying to the other: "you don't know what you are talking about!". The second one says: "what do you mean by talking? What do you mean by you? What do you mean by know?"

RICHARD FEYNMAN

The Feynman Lectures on Physics


As I came not into life with any knowledge of it, and as my likings are for what is old, I busy myself in seeking knowledge there.

CONFUCIUS

The Wisdom of Confucius


Knowledge will soon become folly, when good sense ceases to be its guardian.

WELLINS CALCOTT

Thoughts Moral and Divine


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


In the case of various kinds of knowledge, we find that what in former days occupied the energies of men of mature mental ability sinks to the level of information, exercises, and even pastimes for children; and in this educational progress we can see the history of the world’s culture delineated in faint outline.

GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL

The Phenomenology of Spirit


All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance.

T. S. ELIOT

The Rock


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 further we advance in knowledge, the more simplicity shall we discover in those primary rules that regulate all the apparently endless, complicated, and multiform operations of the Godhead.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon


Knowledge often cuts the root that supports it.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims


How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in truth!

SOPHOCLES

Oedipus Rex


All knowledge hurts.

CASSANDRA CLARE

City of Bones


Information is the mortar that both builds and destroys empires.

TOBSHA LEARNER

The Witch of Cologne


The one thing we do not know is the limit of the knowable.

JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU

Emile


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


Everybody knows something, and nobody knows everything.

DUSTY BAKER

Esquire, Apr. 2004