Knowledge Quotes

Poetry is the first and last of all knowledge - it is as immortal as the heart of man.

The knowledge of the ancients reached the highest point-the time before anything existed. This is the highest point. It is exhaustive. There is no adding to it.

That knowledge which stops at what it does not know, is the highest knowledge.

When we venture in that unfamiliar sea, we trust blindly in those who guide us, believing that they know more than we do.

Every other knowledge is harmful to him who does not have knowledge of goodness.

We must not attach knowledge to the mind, we have to incorporate it there.

Judgement can do without knowledge: but not knowledge without judgement.

Some people still think knowledge is power.

Knowledge has no value except that which can be gained from its application toward some worthy end.

The shiny paint laid on by curiosity's hand has worn off. What thing better can a man know than the love of Christ, which passes knowledge?

No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew it was the greatest of evils.

One cannot know everything.

Our own interests are still an exquisite means for dazzling our eyes agreeably.

It is better to doubt that a concept is stupidly flying under your head than profoundly flying over your head.

I had been born shoved to the margins of the world, sure, but I had volunteered for the pits.

That’s the first step to learning: admitting what you don’t know.

None should say: 'I can trust' or 'I cannot trust' until he is a master of the option, of trusting or not trusting.

Many things which are called 'secrets' are only things withheld from people until they can understand or effectively experience them.

Anybody or anything may stand between you and knowledge if you are unfit for it.

Turn to your community and the great earth for sustenance and knowledge.

There are no things man was not meant to know. There are, perhaps, things man is too dumb to figure out, but that's a different problem.

A number of our scientists boast intelligence but lack wisdom. I find those to be the predictable ones.

As the Promethean fire which banished Darkness, so Knowledge bears the Power and the Light.

To be too knowing is a downfall.

Omnipotence and omniscience are the end of power and knowledge.

One had to live a long time to know a man's true nature.

The best people are always the worst. They drive everyone mad by being so good at second-guessing everything bad.

All things are strange which are worth knowing.

We must each achieve greater individual consciousness and self-knowledge, and project mindful kindness toward everything and everyone.

We oft know little of who we were, only something of who we are, and nothing of who we may be.

It is important to know the stories and histories of things, even if all we know is that we don't know.

No civilization, including Plato's, has ever been destroyed because its citizens learned too much.

I watch people sometimes, wonder how they can walk around with the weight of what they know.

Interpretations of interpretations interpreted.

I want to disabuse people of the idea that knowledge is power. Knowing how to get to Detroit is not the same thing as having the bus fare.

Scoring well on tests is the sort of happy thing that gets the school district the greenbacks they crave. Understanding and appreciating the material are secondary.

The complexities of adult life get in the way of the truth.

Fools may have the greatest repository of knowledge but will never attain Wisdom.

First, the avid student must be aware that when the world was young it knew only seven things: water, life and death, salt, night, birds and the length of an hour.

One knows so little. When one knows more it is too late.

Knowing was a temptation. What you don't know won't tempt you.

If one should criticize one should always have a meaningful explanation to accompany.

Maybe I don't really want to know what's going on. Maybe I'd rather not know. Maybe I couldn't bear to know. The Fall was a fall from innocence to knowledge.

There is no magic. There is only knowledge, more or less hidden.

But honestly... I just don't know what anyone's thinking. To me, that's scarier than any half-rotten ghoul trying to eat my flesh.

I sold my soul for knowledge of the future, only to have that very pact render me forever ignorant (Gerald Tarrant).

Maybe you are already lost and just do not know it.

Never take advice about never taking advice. That is an old vice of men - to dish it out without being able to take it - the blind leading the blind into more blindness.

for whenever men are right they are not young

How had this happened? Everyone in the world knew more than us, about everything, and this I hated then found hugely comforting.