Quotes About Knowledge

To know nothing is nothing, not to want to know anything likewise, but to be beyond knowing anything, to know you are beyond knowing anything, that is when peace enters in, to the soul of the incurious seeker.

What I assert, deny, question, in the present, I still can. But mostly I shall use the various tenses of the past. For mostly I do not know, it is perhaps no longer so, it is too soon to know, I simply do not know, perhaps shall never know.

All men can do great things, if they know what great things are.

The truest characters of ignorance are vanity, and pride and arrogance.

The dons are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.

There are some things which it is madness not to try to know but which it is almost as much madness to try to know.

The public do not know enough to be experts, yet know enough to decide between them.

It is far safer to know too little than too much. People will condemn the one, though they will resent being called upon to exert themselves to follow the other.

The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but a little want of knowledge is also a dangerous thing.

God cannot alter the past, though historians can.

And wisely tell what hour o' th' dayThe clock doth strike, by algebra.

There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him.

The Bible may be the truth but it's not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

Books are like imprisoned souls until someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.

A blind man knows he cannot see, and is glad to be led, though it be by a dog; but he that is blind in his understanding, which is the worst blindness of all, believes he sees as the best, and scorns a guide.

Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

a man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.

La vida es el arte de sacar conclusiones suficientes a partir de datos insuficientes.

Der Unterschied zwischen Gott und einem Historiker: Gott kann die Vergangenheit nicht ändern.

It is far safer to know too little than too much.  People will condemn the one, though they will resent being called upon to exert themselves to follow the other.

Unless you have a perception of who you are as a lawyer, you will never be at ease in dealing with legal matters, clients, or courts. But if you know who you are and why you're there, all you need is the expertise and the information.

The venerable dead are waiting in my library to entertain me and relieve me from the nonsense of surviving mortals.