Quotes About Knowledge

You taught me language, and my profit on't / Is, I know how to curse

If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions: I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.

If you can look into the seeds of time And say which grain will grow and which will not, Speak, then, to me, who neither beg nor fear Your favors nor your hate.

Well, God give them wisdom that have it; and those that are fools, let them use their talents.

Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom.

More fools know Jack Fool than Jack Fool knows.

They are the books, the arts, the academes, That show, contain and nourish all the world.

For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech, To stir men's blood: I only speak right on; I tell you that which you yourselves do know;

Modest doubt is call'd the beacon of the wise.

They say miracles are past; and we have our philosophical persons, to make modern and familiar, things supernatural and causeless. Hence is it that we make trifles of terrors, ensconcing ourselves into seeming knowledge, when we should submit ourselves to an unknown fear.

Demand me nothing: what you know, you know.

There is no darkness but ignorance.

That they lack, for if their heads had any intellectual armour they could never wear such heavy headpieces

Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

If thou wert my fool, nuncle, I'ld have thee beaten for being old before thy time. LEAR. How's that? FOOL. Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst been wise.

Highly fed and lowly taught.

But from thine eyes my knowledge I derive, And, constant stars, in them I read such art, As truth and beauty shall together thrive If from thyself to store thou wouldst convert; Or else of thee I prognosticate, Thy end is truth's and beauty's doom and date.

There is more things in heaven and earth...than are dreamt of by your philosophy.

Is it possible he should know what he is, and be that he is?

Existen más cosas entre el cielo y la tierra que las que sueñas en tu filosofía.

Of all knowledge, the wise and good seek mostly to know themselves.

The common curse of mankind, - folly and ignorance

I can say little more than I have studied, and that question's out of my part.

Come on then, I will swear to study so To know the thing I am forbid to know - Berowne