KNOWLEDGE QUOTES VIII

quotations about knowledge

All men by nature desire to know.

ARISTOTLE

Metaphysics


If you cannot make knowledge your servant, make it your friend.

BALTASAR GRACIAN

The Art of Worldly Wisdom


If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.

MARGARET FULLER

Woman's Day Magazine, Sep. 12, 2007


Knowledge is twofold and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of what is false.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon


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


Man is an ignoramus athirst for knowledge.

CHARLES WAGNER

Justice


The end of man is knowledge but there's one thing he can't know. He can't know whether knowledge will save him or kill him. He will be killed, all right, but he can't know whether he is killed because of the knowledge which he has got or because of the knowledge which he hasn't got and which if he had it would save him.

ROBERT PENN WARREN

All the King's Men


The further knowledge advances, the nearer we come to the unfathomable.

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe


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

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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.

CARL SAGAN

Cosmos


With the growth of knowledge our ideas must from time to time be organized afresh. The change takes place usually in accordance with new maxims as they arise, but it always remains provisional.

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe


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


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


The most that any of us know, is the least of that which is to be known.

BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE

Moral and Religious Aphorisms


A youth's knowledge is like a cheap shotgun--likely to do as much damage to the owner as to the game.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought


For knowing is spoken of in three ways: it may be either universal knowledge or knowledge proper to the matter in hand or actualising such knowledge; consequently three kinds of error also are possible.

ARISTOTLE

Prior Analytics

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Is knowledge the pearl of price? That, too, may be purchased -- by steady application, and long solitary hours of study and reflection. Bestow these, and you shall be wise.

ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD

Tales, Poems and Essays

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Knowledge enormous makes a God of me.

JOHN KEATS

Hyperion


Knowledge without follow-through is worse than no knowledge at all. because if you're guessing and it doesn't work out you can just say, shit, the gods are against me. but if you know and don't do, you've got attics and dark halls in your mind to walk up and down in and wonder about. this ain't healthy, leads to unpleasant evenings, too much to drink and the shredding machine.

CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Notes of a Dirty Old Man


Knowledge, like air, is vital to life. Like air, no one should be denied it.

ALAN MOORE

V for Vendetta