Knowledge Quotes V

KNOWLEDGE QUOTES V

quotations about knowledge

This is the bitterest pain among men, to have much knowledge but no power.

HERODOTUS

The Histories: Book 9

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

JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU

Emile

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

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought

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

LEONARDO DA VINCI

Thoughts on Art and Life

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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

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

SOPHOCLES

Oedipus Rex

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All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance.

T. S. ELIOT

The Rock

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You have to live to really know things.

DAN SIMMONS

Hyperion

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What we know is to what we do not know, as a grain of sand is to the beach.

IVAN PANIN

Thoughts

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Sorrow is Knowledge: they who know the most
Must mourn the deepest o'er the fatal truth,
The Tree of Knowledge is not that of Life.

LORD BYRON

Manfred

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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

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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

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Man is an ignoramus athirst for knowledge.

CHARLES WAGNER

Justice

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Knowledge without conscience is but the ruin of the soul.

FRANÇOIS RABELAIS

Pantagruel

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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.