Quotes About Knowledge

Knowledge doth come of learning well retained, Unfruitful else

I have not found among my possessions anything which I've held more dear, nor valued so much, as the knowledge of the actions of great men, acquired by long experience in contemporary affairs, and a continual study of ancient history…

It appears to me that if one wants to make progress in mathematics one should study the masters and not the pupils.

A great truth wants to be criticized not idolized

There is one thing one has to have: either a soul that is cheerful by nature, or a soul made cheerful by work, love, art, and knowledge.

Wir haben die Kunst, damit wir nicht an der Wahrheit zugrunde gehen.

One knows a little too much about everybody. And we can even see through some men, and yet we can by no means pass through them.

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

As long as you still experience the stars as something above you, you lack the eye of knowledge.

it is not only he who speaks contrary to what he knows who lies, but even more he who speaks contrary to what he does not know

Enjoyment belongs to those who know things halfway.

philosophy is not suited for the masses, what they need is holiness.

Plato thought that letting the people vote was like letting the passengers steer a ship – far better to let people who knew what they were doing take charge.

wisdom and understanding in the course of human history will only come fully at a late stage, when we're looking back on what has already happened, like someone looking back on the events of a day as night falls.

It is called education because it is learned. You do not have to have had an experience in order to sympathize or empathize with the subject. That is why books are written: so that we do not have to do the same things. We learn from experience, true; but we also learn from empathy." A Theory of Patience

If you don't understand your past, you can't transcend it, you might repeat it, you don't understand half of your life. Knowledge is what's important, you know? Not the erasure, but the confrontation of it.

I'm told by my young friends that experience is much more important than books. Of course Ben Franklin had something to say about experience and fools, but even Franklin thought that a fool would learn by his experience. That has proven false in the modern world. Some people are simply unwilling to learn under any circumstances, which maybe, even then, wouldn't be so bad if they weren't so damned proud of it.

But instinct is something which transcends knowledge. We have, undoubtedly, certain finer fibers that enable us to perceive truths when logical deduction, or any other willful effort of the brain, is futile.

Of all things I liked books best.

instinct is something which transcends knowledge. We have, undoubtedly, certain finer fibers that enable us to perceive truths when logical deduction, or any other willful effort of the brain, is futile.

Instinct is something which transcends knowledge

Deficient observation is merely a form of ignorance and responsible for the many morbid notions and foolish ideas prevailing.

Of all things I liked books the best.

It is paradoxical, yet true, to say, that the more we know, the more ignorant we become in the absolute sense, for it is only through enlightenment that we become conscious of our limitations. Precisely one of the most gratifying results of intellectual evolution is the continuous opening up of new and greater prospects.