Quotes About Knowledge

His Ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.

but it is better to learn wisdom late than never to learn it at all.

That which is clearly known hath less terror than that which is but hinted at and guessed.

It is easy to be wise after the event.

His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge. Of contemporary literature, philosophy and politics he appeared to know next to nothing... My surprise reached a climax, however, when I found incidentally that he was ignorant of the Copernican Theory and of the composition of the Solar System.

Desultory readers are seldom remarkable for the exactness of their learning.

You mentioned your name as if I should recognize it, but beyond the obvious facts that you are a bachelor, a solicitor, a freemason, and an asthmatic, I know nothing whatever about you.

Well, he said, I say, now, as I said then, that a man should keep his little brain-attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of this library, where he can get it if he wants it.

Problems may be solved in the study which have baffled all those who have sought a solution by the aid of their senses. To carry the art, however, to its highest pitch, it is necessary that the reasoner should be able to use all the facts which have come to his knowledge; and this in itself implies, as you will readily see, a possession of all knowledge, which, even in these days of free education and encyclopaedias, is a somewhat rare accomplishment.

Read it up – you really should. There is nothing new under the sun. It has all been done before.

I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.

I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things, so that he has a difficulty in laying his hands upon it.

The Press, Watson, is a most valuable institution, if you only know how to use it.

It is a question of cubic capacity, said he; a man with so large a brain must have something in it.

It was easier to know it than to explain why I knew it.

but it is better to learn wisdom late than never to learn it at all. - Sherlock Holmes

All other men are specialists, but his specialism is omniscience.

Holmes, you have an answer to everything

Problems may be solved in the study which have baffled all those who have sought a solution by the aid of their senses.

Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

When a doctor does go wrong, he is the first of criminals. He has the nerve and he has the knowledge.

How terrible is wisdom when it brings no profit to the wise.

It was a net from which it seemed to me, a few hours ago, that there was no possible escape. But he had not that supreme gift of the artist, the knowledge of when to stop. He wished to improve that which was already perfect . . . and so he ruined all.

Give me your details, and from an armchair I will return you an excellent expert opinion.