Quotes About Knowledge

It is enough to know that not to know is enough. It is enough not to know.

Love, sing, cry, and fight, but all the time, seek to know everything you can about the earth upon which you stand, till your time is done.

people burn books, and that they ban books is, in a way, a good sign. It's a good sign because it means books have power. When people burn books, it's because they're afraid of what's inside them...

Orwell's vision of our terrible future [...] - the world in which books are banned. What is Huxley's horrific vision? It is a world where there is no need for books to be banned, because no one can be bothered to read them'.

When people burn books, it's because they're afraid of what's inside them, and there's the thing: to be afraid of the contents means that they have power.

If I can see the future, then what does that mean? It would be like knowing the end of a story right from the start, almost as if you were reading it backwards. And who wants to know how their own story ends?

Why were there some people who seemed so sure of themselves that it made him feel small and ignorant by comparison, as if they had a script to life with all the answers on it? He felt he didn't even know the questions.

When people don't take the time to become well educated, they are most likely making their decision based solely on price, which generally means they're not the best fit.

There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it

Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

Philosophy, rightly defined, is simply the love of wisdom

A home without books is a body without soul.

I would rather be wrong with Plato than right with such men as these [the Pythagoreans].

There is nothing so ridiculous but some philosopher has said it.

These studies are a spur to the young, a delight to the old; an ornament in prosperity, a consoling refuge in adversity; they are pleasure for us at home, and no burden abroad; they stay up with us at night, they accompany us when we travel, they are with us in our country visits.

I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.

The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.

Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth.

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

O philosophy, you leader of life.

Not to know the events which happened before one was born, that is to remain always a boy.

Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.