KNOWLEDGE QUOTES

quotations about knowledge

Knowledge quote

To know is not to know, unless someone else has known that I know.

LUCILIUS

fragment


I know somewhat too much; and from this knowledge, once one has been infected, there seems to be no recovering.

J. M. COETZEE

Waiting for the Barbarians


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


As our circle of knowledge expands, so does the circumference of darkness surrounding it.

ALBERT EINSTEIN


Close beside my knowledge lies my black ignorance.

FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

Thus Spoke Zarathustra


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


Knowledge forbidden?
Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord
Envy them that? Can it be sin to know,
Can it be death? And do they only stand
By ignorance? Is that their happy state,
The proof of their obedience and their faith?
O fair foundation laid whereon to build
Their ruin!

JOHN MILTON

Paradise Lost


Where thou perceivest knowledge, bend the ear of attention and respect;
But yield not further to the teaching, than as thy mind is warranted by reasons.
Better is an obstinant disputant, that yieldeth inch by inch,
Than the shallow traitor to himself, who surrendereth to half an argument.

MARTIN FARQUHAR TUPPER

Proverbial Philosophy


No thief, however skillful, can rob one of knowledge, and that is why knowledge is the best and safest treasure to acquire.

L. FRANK BAUM

The Lost Princess of Oz

Tags: L. Frank Baum


Knowledge! What does that mean? Your knowledge is nothing but cowardice. No, really, that's all it is. You just want to put a little wall around infinity. And you're afraid to look on the other side of that wall.

YEVGENY ZAMYATIN

We


Grace is given of God, but knowledge is bought in the market.

ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH

The Bothie of Tober-na-Vuolich


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


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


Those that'll tell don't know, and those that know won't tell.

SPIKE LEE

Do the Right Thing


A society that fears knowledge is a society that fears itself.

BERNARD BECKETT

Genesis


Knowledge is but a painful effort wasted,
A bitter drowning in a bitter sea.

STELLA BENSON

This Is the End

Tags: Stella Benson


If there is anything for which I would go back to childhood, and live this weary life over again, it is for the burning, exalting, transporting thrill and ecstasy with which the young faculties hold their earliest communion with knowledge.

HORACE MANN

Thoughts


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


What you know is a club for yourself, and what you don't know is a meat-ax for the other fellow.

GEORGE HORACE LORIMER

Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son


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