KNOWLEDGE QUOTES VI

quotations about knowledge

Men are more readily contented with no intellectual light than 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 often cuts the root that supports it.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims


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


When intelligent and sensible people despise knowledge in their old age, it is only because they have asked too much of it and of themselves.

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe


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


Information is the mortar that both builds and destroys empires.

TOBSHA LEARNER

The Witch of Cologne


Knowledge is a mimic creation.

HORACE MANN

Thoughts


Folks don't like to have somebody around knowin' more than they do. It aggravates 'em.

HARPER LEE

To Kill a Mockingbird


There is, perhaps, one universal truth about all forms of human cognition: the ability to deal with knowledge is hugely exceeded by the potential knowledge contained in man's environment. To cope with this diversity, man's perception, his memory, and his thought processes early become governed by strategies for protecting his limited capacities from the confusion of overloading. We tend to perceive things schematically, for example, rather than in detail, or we represent a class of diverse things by some sort of averaged "typical instance."

JEROME S. BRUNER

Art as a Mode of Knowing


The less we know, the longer the explanation.

BRIAN HERBERT & KEVEN J. ANDERSON

Dune: House Corrino


What we know is built on what we do not know.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims


Seek knowledge from the purest source.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims


To receive instruction and knowledge is as natural as to receive the light of the sun, if a man opens his eyes.

BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE

Moral and Religious Aphorisms


Let no one, then, seek to know from me what I know that I do not know; unless he perhaps wishes to learn to be ignorant of that of which all we know is, that it cannot be known.

ST. AUGUSTINE

The City of God

Tags: St. Augustine


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


The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.

STEPHEN HAWKING

attributed, The Prism and the Rainbow


All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance.

T. S. ELIOT

The Rock


Knowledge is proud that he has learn'd so much;
Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.

WILLIAM COWPER

The Task


As I came not into life with any knowledge of it, and as my likings are for what is old, I busy myself in seeking knowledge there.

CONFUCIUS

The Wisdom of Confucius


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

IVAN PANIN

Thoughts