Quotes About Knowledge

As Littlewood said to me once [of the ancient Greeks], they are not clever school boys or 'scholarship candidates,' but 'Fellows of another college.

We in reality only know when we doubt a little. With knowledge comes doubt.

We rather confess our moral errors, faults, and crimes than our ignorance.

All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, until they take root in our personal experience.

Glib tongues frill up their hash of knowledge for mankind in polished speeches that are no more than vaporous winds rustling the fallen leaves in autumn.

Belief is not the beginning of knowledge- it is the end.

nothing is more frightful than to see ignorance in action

Der Mensch muss bei dem Glauben verharren, dass das Unbegreifliche befreidlich sei; er würde sonst nicht forschen.

Believe me, dearest, what men call intelligent Often is pedantry and self-conceit.

Yet here poor fool for all my lore, I stand no wiser than before

There is no patriotic art and no patriotic science.

What we know we do not need; what we need, we know not...

Ein Jahrhundert, das sich bloß auf die Analyse verlegt und sich vor der Synthese gleichsam fürchtet, ist nicht auf dem rechten Wege; denn nur beide zusammen, wie Aus- und Einatmen, machen das Leben der Wissenschaft. 1829, "Analyse und Synthese

O Sibyl excellent, enough of adjuration! But hither bring us thy potation, And quickly fill the beaker to the brim! This drink will bring my friend no injuries: He is a man of manifold degrees, And many draughts are known to him.

From early on I have suspected that the so important-sounding task "Know thyself" is a ruse of a cabal of priests. They are trying to seduce man from activity in the outside world, to distract him with impossible demands; they seek to draw him into a false inner contemplation. Man only knows himself insofar as he knows the world - the world which he only comes to know in himself and himself only in it.

Inoltre apprezza più il mio ingegno e i miei talenti che non il mio cuore, che invece è il mio solo orgoglio ed è l'unica sorgente di tutto, di ogni energia, beatitudine e miseria... Ah, chiunque può sapere quello che so io... Ma il mio cuore l'ho soltanto io.

I have, alas! Philosophy, Medicine, Jurisprudence too, And to my cost Theology, With ardent labor, studied through. And here I stand, with all my lore, Poor fool, no wiser than before.

Oh happy he who still can hope in our day to breathe the truth while plunged in seas of error! What we don't know is really what we need, and what we know is of no use to us whatever!

I am proud of my heart alone, it is the sole source of everything, all our strength, happiness and misery. All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own

Kljuc Solomonov uvek pomaze kad polupaklen se izrod pokaze.

A one malobrojne, sto su nesto i saznali, al' nisu znali vesto da skrivaju saznanja ta, no su ih, srca nabujala sva, prostome puku obznanjivali, - njih su, otkad za svet se zna, razapinjali i spaljivali.

A person who does not know the history of the last 3,000 years wanders in the darkness of ignorance, unable to make sense of the reality around him

O verdadeiro analfabetismo é a falta de curiosidade; a curiosidade é a essência da cultura.

This world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot read it.