Quotes About Knowledge

Dom and I have often agreed that trees are like fish – we ought to know more than we do about the differences between the various types, but we've reached our forties and can still only identify weeping willows and salmon with any certainty.

knowledge of character is essential to the solving of crime," I said. "Without knowing the motive, you can't solve anything, and without understanding character, motive is unknowable. I have also heard him say that no man can act in a way that is contrary to his own nature.

If we can't work out how it's done, we'll Google it

Old age and the passage of time teach all things.

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.

A short saying often contains much wisdom.

Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.

Much wisdom often goes with fewest words.

A short saying oft contains much wisdom.

How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be When there's no help in truth

Men of perverse opinion do not know the excellence of what is in their hands, till some one dash it from them.

Surely, to think your own the only wisdom, and yours the only word, the only will, betrays a shallow spirit, an empty heart.

Though a man be wise it is no shame for him to live and learn.

How dreadful the knowledge of the truth can be When there's no help in truth.

Alas, how terrible is wisdom when it brings no profit to the man that's wise! This I knew well, but had forgotten it, else I would not have come here.

Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do

It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand, and what those things are. Human understanding has vulgarly occupied itself with nothing but understanding, but if it would only take the trouble to understand itself at the same time it would simply have to posit the paradox.

Believing in what you don't know is as true as believing in what you know as long as your life is just an illusion.

There isn't a God more real and truer than the God of your knowledge.

Why is man obliged to learn ignorance?

Whoever lost the truth has lost him/her self.

Was there ever something not known before it was recognized?

What grain of dust can be easier carried by your life's emptiness wind than the knowledge?