KNOWLEDGE QUOTES VIII

quotations about knowledge

You have to live to really know things.

DAN SIMMONS

Hyperion


How dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.

MARY SHELLEY

Frankenstein


Knowledge is power. Power to do evil ... or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge itself is not evil.

VERONICA ROTH

Allegiant


The most that any of us know, is the least of that which is to be known.

BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE

Moral and Religious Aphorisms


Knowledge alone doth not amount to Virtue; but certainly there is no Virtue without Knowledge.

BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE

Moral and Religious Aphorisms


That is the beginning of knowledge--the discovery of something we do not understand.

FRANK HERBERT

God Emperor of Dune


Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.

GEORGE WASHINGTON

speech to Congress, Jan. 8, 1790


I do not approve the maxim which desires a man to know a little of everything. Superficial knowledge, knowledge without principles, is almost always useless and sometimes harmful knowledge.

LUC DE CLAPIERS

MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES, Reflections and Maxims


It's a hard talk for a man to say I don't know; it hurts his pride: but should not the pretending he does, hurt it much more?

FULKE GREVILLE

Maxims


We just do not see how very specialized the use of "I know" is.

LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN

On Certainty


Those who have knowledge are more confident than those who have no knowledge, and they are more confident after they have learned than before.

PLATO

Protagoras


The highest knowledge can be nothing more than the shortest and clearest road to truth; all the rest is pretension, not performance, mere verbiage and grandiloquence, from which we can learn nothing.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon


Knowledge grows exponentially. The more we know, the greater our ability to learn, and the faster we expand our knowledge base.

DAN BROWN

The Lost Symbol


Knowledge shuts a man's mouth.

ERWIN SYLVANUS

Dr. Korczak and the Children


Too much knowledge never makes for simple decisions.

FRANK HERBERT

Children of Dune


If there's anything worse than knowing too little, it's knowing too much. Education will broaden a narrow mind, but there's no known cure for a big head. The best you can hope is that it will swell up and bust.

GEORGE HORACE LORIMER

Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son


We ought to be ten times as hungry for knowledge as for food for the body.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


Knowledge is but an instrument, which the profligate and the flagitious may use as well as the brave and the just.

HORACE MANN

Thoughts


The real scholar learns how to evolve the unknown from the known, and draws near the master.

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe


A man who is ready to converse but has nothing to say worth hearing, is a well without water; he that is rich in knowledge but reserved is a well without a bucket.

JOHN THORNTON

Maxims and Directions for Youth