quotations about knowledge
Of what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to a mind when it has once seized on it like a lichen on a rock.
MARY SHELLEY
Frankenstein
Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.
ALVIN TOFFLER
Powershift
By enlarging your knowledge of things, you will find your knowledge of self is enlarged.
CHARLES DE LINT
"The Pochade Box", The Ivory and the Horn
Knowledge without conscience is but the ruin of the soul.
FRANÇOIS RABELAIS
Pantagruel
Knowledge is a mimic creation.
HORACE MANN
Thoughts
I am conscious of my inability to grasp, in all its details and positive developments, any very large portion of human knowledge. The greatest intelligence would not be equal to a comprehension of the whole.
MIKHAIL BAKUNIN
God and the State
In things which we know, everyone will trust us ... and we may do as we please, and no one will like to interfere with us; and we are free, and masters of others; and these things will be really ours, for we shall turn them to our good.
PLATO
Lysis
I tried to think of my knowledge, but it was a squirrel's heap of winter nuts. There was no strength in my knowledge any more and I felt small and naked as a new-hatched bird.
STEPHEN VINCENT BENET
"By the Waters of Babylon"
All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance.
T. S. ELIOT
The Rock
If you are truly wise, you will conceal your knowledge from the world, and let every fool think himself your superior, especially if you have anything to gain by him; for envy is the strongest passion of the weak, and mediocrity is the hot-bed on which all the meaner passions flourish.
CHARLES WILLIAM DAY
The Maxims
The knowledge of useful things is a purse seldom lost.
EDWARD COUNSEL
Maxims
Human knowledge is the parent of doubt.
FULKE GREVILLE
Maxims
Few can tell what they know without also showing what they do not know.
IVAN PANIN
Thoughts
Knowledge ... shall always bear witness like a clarion to its creator.
LEONARDO DA VINCI
Thoughts on Art and Life
The true method of knowledge is experiment.
WILLIAM BLAKE
All Religions are One
Knowledge often cuts the root that supports it.
EDWARD COUNSEL
Maxims
What we know is to what we do not know, as a grain of sand is to the beach.
IVAN PANIN
Thoughts
It is as though each of us investigated and made his own only a tiny circle of facts. Knowledge outside the day's work is regarded by most men as gewgaw. Still we are constantly in reaction against our ignorance. We rouse ourselves at intervals and speculate.
ROBERT WILSON LYND
The Pleasure of Ignorance
Information is the mortar that both builds and destroys empires.
TOBSHA LEARNER
The Witch of Cologne
Man is an ignoramus athirst for knowledge.
CHARLES WAGNER
Justice