What Is Knowledge Quotes

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods." (1794)]

I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.

Hold fast to dreams, For if dreams dieLife is a broken-winged bird, That cannot fly.

It takes a very long time to become young.

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.

I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss

he who will not economize will have to agonize

Journeys end in lovers meeting, Every wise man's son doth know.

we have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood

A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in witness of the dawn." (1872)

Wenn du weißt, behaupte, dass du es weißt. Und wenn du etwas nicht weißt, gib zu, dass du es nicht weißt. Das ist Wissen.

...[R]eal wisdom is the property of God, and... human wisdom has little or no value.

I think the essence of wisdom is emancipation, as far as possible, from the tyranny of the here and now.

I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.

Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in.

People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social enviroment. Most people are incapable of forming such opinions.", 1953)

An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

To know that you do not know is the best.To think you know when you do not is a disease.Recognizing this disease as a disease is to be free of it.

A woman, especially if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it.

nothing that is worth knowing can be taught

Let us tenderly and kindly cherish therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write .

Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.

Knowledge is the food of the soul.

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it.

Those who don't know must learn from those who do.

You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you have lost something.

He who replies to words of doubtdoth put the light of knowledge out.

Since we cannot know all there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.

Then we shan’t regard anyone as a lover of knowledge or wisdom who is fussy about what he studies…

Knowledge kills action action requires the veils of illusion.

What we want to see is the child in pursuit of the knowledge not the knowledge in pursuit of the child.

Knowledge unqualified is knowledge simply of something learned.

Curiosity is more important than knowledge.

There are no limitations to the mind except those that we acknowledge.

Modest doubt is call'd the beacon of the wise.

The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing.

If things far away don’t concern you, you’ll soon mourn things close at hand.

A nation which expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, expects that which never was and never will be.

There is nothing so minute or inconsiderable that I would not rather know it than not know it.

Ignorance, when voluntary, is criminal, and a man may be properly charged with that evil which he neglected or refused to learn how to prevent.

The English novels are the only relaxation of the intellectually unemployed. But one should not be too severe on them. They show a want of knowledge that must be the result of years of study.

Individuals who keep growing in knowledge are the ones who succeed.

Neither love without knowledge nor knowledge without love can produce a good life.

Ignorance is the root of many ills. Knowledge must be the fundamental ally of nations that aspire, despite all their tragedies and problems, to become truly emancipated, to build a better world.

He who would know the world must first manufacture it.

The man who discovers new knowledge is the permanent benefactor of humanity.

You have a lot to explore beyond this cottage if you want to know everything about the world. Explore until your heart is full, Belle. And then explore some more.

In pursuit of knowledge, every day something is acquired. In pursuit of wisdom, every day something is dropped.