KNOWLEDGE QUOTES V

quotations about knowledge

In the world we live in, what we know and what we don't know are like Siamese twins, inseparable, existing in a state of confusion.

HARUKI MURAKAMI

Sputnik Sweetheart


Oh Christ, the exhaustion of not knowing anything. It's so tiring and hard on the nerves. It really takes it out of you, not knowing anything. You're given comedy and miss all the jokes. Every hour you get weaker. Sometimes, as I sit alone in my flat in London and stare at the window, I think how dismal it is, how heavy, to watch the rain and not know why it falls.

MARTIN AMIS

Money: A Suicide Note


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


Man is an ignoramus athirst for knowledge.

CHARLES WAGNER

Justice


Few can tell what they know without also showing what they do not know.

IVAN PANIN

Thoughts


The knowledge of useful things is a purse seldom lost.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims


All our knowledge is the offspring of our perceptions.

LEONARDO DA VINCI

Thoughts on Art and Life


Men have hunger, sleep, fear and carnal intercourse in common with the lower animals. It is only knowledge that a man has more than they. Those men who have not it may be regarded as beasts.

CHANAKYA

Vridda-Chanakya


Everybody knows something, and nobody knows everything.

DUSTY BAKER

Esquire, Apr. 2004


Humans crave knowledge, and when that craving ends, we are no longer human.

TIM LEBBON

Fallen


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

MARGARET FULLER

Woman's Day Magazine, Sep. 12, 2007


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"


Knowledge ... shall always bear witness like a clarion to its creator.

LEONARDO DA VINCI

Thoughts on Art and Life


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


All knowledge, when separated from justice and virtue, is seen to be cunning and not wisdom.

PLATO

Menexenus


The surest way of concealing from others the boundaries of one's own knowledge is not to overstep them.

GIACOMO LEOPARDI

Leopardi: Poems and Prose


Knowledge is a mimic creation.

HORACE MANN

Thoughts


Information is the mortar that both builds and destroys empires.

TOBSHA LEARNER

The Witch of Cologne


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


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