Quotes About Knowledge

Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth;And thus do we of wisdom and of reach,With windlasses and with assays of bias,By indirections find directions out.

Hear him debate of commonwealth affairs,You would say it hath been all in all his study.

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

Within the book and volume of my brain.

A good old man, sir; he will be talking: as they say, When the age is in, the wit is out.

Lear: Dost thou know me, fellow?Kent: No, sir, but you have that in your countenance which I would fain call master.Lear: What's that?Kent: Authority.

The saying is true, "The empty vessel makes the greatest sound."

We cannot all be masters.

You two are book-men.

A Daniel, still say I; a second Daniel!I thank thee, Jew, for teaching me that word.

In nature's infinite book of secrecyA little I can read.

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.

An upright judge, a learned judge!

Hereafter, in a better world than this, I shall desire more love and knowledge of you.

Oh, thou hast a damnable iteration, and art indeed able to corrupt a saint. Thou hast done much harm upon me Hal, God forgive thee for it. Before I knew thee Hal, I knew nothing, and now am I, if a man should speak truly, little better than one of the wicked.

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.

Although I'm a business major out of McGill University, I know nothing... but then I found out much later in life, nobody knows anything.

Everyone knows everything about all of us. That's too much knowledge!

And, while in my lifetime I've seen science make extraordinary inroads into solving the most complex questions of life, after all this time I admit that I am thrilled that there are some things that forever will remain a mystery. For example, do I wear a toupee?

His knowledge of books had in some degree diminished his knowledge of the world.

I learn more from books than from people

can seem very attractive to someone who has no idea at all what it really means; and

We live in a scientific age, yet we assume that knowledge of science is the prerogative of only a small number of human beings, isolated and priestlike in their laboratories. This is not true. The materials of science are the materials of life itself. Science is part of the reality of living; it is the what, the how, and the why of everything in our experience. It is impossible to understand man without understanding his environment and the forces that have molded him physically and mentally.

Things you know before you hear them -- Those are you, Those are why You are in the world.