Quotes About Knowledge

We used to think that if we knew one, we knew two, because one and one are two. We are finding that we must learn a great deal more about 'and.

The road to a knowledge of the stars leads through the atom; and important knowledge of the atom has been reached through the stars.

Sinto que nas minha veias arde um desejo mais ardente do que o de amor: é o Desejo de não me assemelhar aos da minha espécie, mas de excedê-los, o desejo de penetrar no segredo da sua própria existência e de participar dele, o desejo de um conhecimento sobrenatural e de um poder supraterrestre.

The gladsome light of jurisprudence.

Truth comes out of error more readily than out of confusion.

There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom

Books speak plain when counselors blanch.

The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead.

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true.

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age

Standing on the Shoulders of Giants.

Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions.

I'm not young enough to know everything.

I know my soul hath power to know all things,Yet is she blind and ignorant in all:I know I'm one of Nature's little kings,Yet to the least and vilest things am thrall.

Books give not wisdome where none was before, But where some is, there reading makes it more.

Ich weiss, dass ich nichts weiss, und kaum das.

I've often thought that my scruples about stealing books were the only thing that stood in the way of my being a really great scholar.

Not more knowledge but better use of the knowledge which we now have, is perhaps the main educational need and the main educational problem which confronts us.

Our evils are due mainly to the failure to apply to our international relationships knowledge which is of practically universal possession, often self-evident in the facts of daily life and experience.

All is but lip-wisdom which wants experience.

I now have learn'd Love right, and learn'd even so, As who by being poisoned doth poison know.

Yes Truth may be, but 'tis not Here; mankind must seek and find it There, But Where nor I nor you can tell, nor aught earth-mother ever bare. Enough to think that Truth can be: come sit we where the roses glow, Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to 'unknow.'

No man can justly censure or condemn another, because indeed no man truly knows another.

A man may be in as just possession of the truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.