Quotes About Knowledge

Few know how to be old.

The height of ability consists in a thorough knowledge of the real value of things, and of the genius of the age we live in.

We judge so superficially of things, that common words and actions spoke and done in an agreeable manner, with some knowledge of what passes in the world, often succeed beyond the greatest ability.

Old fools are greater fools than young ones.

Few men know all the ill they do.

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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

The first point of wisdom is to discern that which is false the second, to know that which is true.

Without the ontological assumption which goes with it, what is called science, is nothing but the dreamer's well-ordered dream.

Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.

We are educated in the grossest ignorance, and no art omitted to stifle our natural reason; if some few get above their nurses instructions, our knowledge must rest concealed and be as useless to the world as gold in the mine.

No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting." Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689 - 1762)

Knowing too much is very apt to make us troublesome to other people

Democritus says, But we know nothing really for truth lies deep down.

He said that there was one only good, namely, knowledge and one only evil, namely, ignorance.

For this reason, to study English literature without some general knowledge of the relation of the Bible to that literature would be to leave one's literary education very incomplete.

Even among the Japanese themselves, no scientific knowledge of their own history is yet possible; because the means of obtaining that knowledge have not yet been prepared,—though mountains of material have been collected.

the history of ethics and aesthetics,—all these and many other matters remain obscure.

We owe more to our illusions than to our knowledge.

Most of the people dishing out judgment have no working experience of the theatre, have not written a professional play, a sketch, or even a joke; have never worked in a theatre, taken an acting class, or published any extended piece of work. They are creative virgins; everything they know about theatre is book-learned and second-hand.

The hegemony that her country exercised gave her the privilege of being ignorant about other nations, other peoples, other faiths. It was as though she lived in a garden of innocence, removed from the knowledge that ought to come with being a citizen of the United States, until I appeared on the dais with an apple.

If I don't know I don't know I think I know If I don't know I know I think I don't know

Freud was a hero. He descended to the "Underworld" and met there stark terrors. He carried with him his theory as a Medusa's head which turned these terrors to stone. We who follow Freud have the benefit of the knowledge he brought back with him and conveyed to us. He survived. We must see of we now can survive without using a theory that is in some measure an instrument of defence.

When I go beyond a certain range it's outside of my direct horizon therefore I've got to rely on the writings and personal communications given to me by other people that I know.... I've got to try to piece together some tentative information picture of what the whole thing is like, but I'm aware that it becomes more and more speculative as it becomes more and more second, third, fourth hand. And this applies to absolutely everyone.