Quotes About Knowledge

The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties, blind faith the one unpardonable sin.

Extinguished theologians lie about the cradle of every science as the strangled snakes beside that of Hercules.

[Learning] is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust . . . never fear . . . and never dream of regretting.

The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch somebody else doing it wrong, without comment.

There is only one thing for it then -- to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it...

The first element of change is awareness. You can't change something unless you know it exists.

They know and do not know, what it is to act or suffer. They know and do not know, that acting is suffering.

Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?

After such knowledge, what forgiveness? Think nowHistory has many cunning passages, contrived corridorsAnd issues, deceives with whispering ambitions,Guides us by vanities.

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.

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

Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.

To arrive where you are, to get from where you are not,You must go by a way wherein there is no ecstasy.In order to arrive at what you do not knowYou must go by the way which is the way of ignorance.

We shall never cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time.

We shall not cease from our exploration And at the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time

And I came to understand, in a way I never had before, that books are truly the stuff of miracles. I even dared to dream that someday, somehow, I might surround myself with books from many times and many tongues...

Why is it that what we do know can save us, but what we don't know can kill us?

For a true name holds true power.

But you know me-I'm an information magpie, always interested in shiny bits of intel. I've never gotten in trouble because of knowing too much.

We are assaulted by so much information each day that it's easy to lose touch with the voice inside us, the compelling sense of knowledge, the awareness we have in our gut. In addition, we're often conditioned to dismiss our instincts as primal and animalistic, subjective and unscientific. We're taught to rely on facts and figures, data and digits, not hunches and gut feelings.

Once you have confidence in your instincts, you must never allow other people's refusal to believe, or their data to refute, what you instinctively know is true.

How much better to get wisdom than gold! And to get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver (Proverbs 16:16 NKJV).

No scientist ever begins his work de novo; while he works with the methodological questioning of what he has already known he builds on knowledge already achieved and engages in a movement of advance. But it is one of the worst characteristics of theological study, whether in biblical interpretation or in dogmatic formulation, that every scholar nowadays thinks he must start all over again, and too many give the impression that no one ever understood this or that until they came along.