Knowledge Quotes V

KNOWLEDGE QUOTES V

quotations about knowledge

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

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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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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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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

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

WILLIAM COWPER

The Task

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Man is an ignoramus athirst for knowledge.

CHARLES WAGNER

Justice

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You have to live to really know things.

DAN SIMMONS

Hyperion

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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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All knowledge hurts.

CASSANDRA CLARE

City of Bones

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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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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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Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

ALVIN TOFFLER

Powershift

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

PLATO

Menexenus

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Everybody knows something, and nobody knows everything.