Quotes About Knowledge

for most history is guessing, and the rest is prejudice)

The Egyptians enjoyed a great variety of diseases, though they had to die of them without knowing their Greek names.

Philosophy directs us first to seek the goods of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied, or not much wanted.

For as no perfect view of a country can be taken from a flat; so it is impossible to discover the remote and deep parts of any science by standing upon the level of the same science, or without ascending to a higher.

I was only 44, which is childhood philosophy.

And then, again, the more distinctly a man knows—the more intelligent he is—the more pain he has; the man who is gifted with genius suffers most of all.

The object of philosophy, therefore, is to perceive unity in diversity, mind in matter, and matter in mind; to find the synthesis in which opposites and contradictions meet and merge; to rise to that highest knowledge of universal unity which is the intellectual equivalent of the love of God.

In philosophy all truth is old and only error is original.

only a fool would try to compress a hundred centuries into a hundred pages of hazardous conclusions. We proceed.

The whole thing [life] is a 'Racket,' so get a few laughs, do the best you can, take nothing serious, for nothing is certainly depending on this generation. Each one lives in spite of the previous one and not because of it. And don't start "seeking knowledge," for the more you seek the nearer the "Booby Hatch" you get.

There is no cure for such antipathies except a broadened education.

Seek ye first the good things of the mind," Bacon admonishes us, "and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt."2 Truth will not make us rich, but it will make us free.

It was even a saying among the philosophers themselves that since learned men had appeared, honest men were nowhere to be found.

We suffocate with uncoordinated facts; our minds are overwhelmed with science breeding and multiplying into specialistic chaos for want of synthetic thought and a unifying philosophy. We are all mere fragments of what a man might be.

Bacon had done it, and Campanella had said, with Baconian pithiness, Tantum possumus quantum scimus —"Our power is proportioned to our knowledge." Perhaps

I have said to myself a thousand times that I should be happy if I were but as ignorant as my old neighbor; and yet it is a happiness which I do not desire.

History, said Bacon, is the planks of a shipwreck; more of the past is lost than has been saved.

A bit of wisdom is a joy forever.

Let me have seven hours a week, and I will make a scholar and a philosopher out of you; in four years, you shall be as well educated as any new-fledged Doctor of Philosophy in the land.

One must pay a penalty for having a prejudice against obscurity.

Truth will not make us rich, but it will make us free. Some

Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.

Do you know," asks Emerson, "the secret of the true scholar? In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him; and In that I am his pupil.

Leonardo called "the noblest pleasure, the joy of understanding.