Quotes About Knowledge

No one can become really educated without having pursued some study in which he took no interest- for it is a part of education to learn to interest ourselves in subjects for which we have no aptitude.

It's not wise to violate the rules until you know how to observe them.

Someone said, 'The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did.' Precisely, and they are that which we know.

We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.

Endless invention, endless experiment, Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness; Knowledge of speech, but not of silence; Knowledge of words, and ignorance of the Word. Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?

The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man.

Knowledge of speech, but not of silence; Knowledge of words, and ignorance of the Word... Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance, All our ignorance brings us nearer to death, But nearness to death no nearer to God. Where is the life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree : you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say 'this we know'.

All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance.

Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? The cycles of heaven in twenty centuries have bought us farther from God and nearer to the dust

Because I do not hope to know again The infirm glory of the positive hour Because I do not think Because I know I shall not know The one veritable transitory power

Culture is not enough, even though nothing is enough without culture.

There are certain points I do not yet understand: They will be clear later. I am also convinced That you only hold a fragment of the explanation. It is only because of what you do not understand That you feel the need to declare what you do. There is more to understand: hold fast to that As the way to freedom.

I always feel it's not wise to violate rules until you know how to observe them.

Dov'è la Vita che abbiamo perduto vivendo? Dov'è la saggezza che abbiamo perduto sapendo? Dov'è la sapienza che abbiamo perduto nell'informazione?

Ah, my friend, you do not know, you do not know What life is, you who hold it in your hands;

All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance,/All our ignorance brings us nearer to death,/... Where is the Life we have lost in living?/Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?/Where is the knowledge we have lost in information

We know too much, and are convinced of too little.

There is, it seems to us, At best, only a limited value In the knowledge derived from experience. The knowledge imposes a pattern, and falsifies, For the pattern is new in every moment.

Cognosco i segni dell antica fiamma

But the circle of our understanding Is a very restricted area. Except for a limited number Of strictly practical purposes We do not know what we are doing; And even, when you think of it, We do not know much about thinking.

What's the use of asking for an evening paper? You know as well as I do, at this distance from London Nobody's likely to have this evening's paper.

At the beginning, eight years ago, I felt, at first, that sense of separation, Of isolation unredeemable, irrevocable— It's eternal, or gives a knowledge of eternity, Because it feels eternal while it lasts. That is one hell.