Quotes About Knowledge

The absolute natures or kinds are known severally by the absolute idea of knowledge.

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.

To be curious about that which is not one's concern while still in ignorance of oneself is absurd.

Philosophy is an elegant thing, if anyone modestly meddles with it; but if they are conversant with it more than is becoming, it corrupts them.

So as this only point among the rest remaineth sure and certain, namely, that nothing is certain.

Strange times are these in which we live when old and young are taught in falsehood's school. And the one man who dares to tell the truth is called at once a lunatic and fool.

The true lover of learning then must his earliest youth, as far as in him lies, desire all truth. . .He whose desires are drawn toward knowledge in every form will be absorbed in the pleasures of the soul, and will hardly feel bodily pleasures- -I mean, if he be a true philosopher and not a sham one. . .Then how can he who has the magnificence of mind and is the spectator of all times and all existence, think much of human life He cannot. Or can such a one account death fearful No indeed.

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

Ignorance, the root and stem of every evil.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.

No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

A estas alturas -finalizando el siglo XX- sabemos, al fin, que la historia no lo va a absolver [a Fidel Castro], sino, como decía Reynaldo Atenas, lo va a "absorber

Si el Estado del Bienestar redistribuye la pobreza y reduce los ingresos, el buenismo educativo redistribuye la ignorancia y reduce el conocimiento".

He picked something out of everything he read.

Man is the only one that knows nothing, that can learn nothing without being taught. He can neither speak nor walk nor eat, and in short he can do nothing at the prompting of nature only, but weep.

Indeed, what is there that does not appear marvelous when it comes to our knowledge for the first time? How many things, too, are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?

He [Pliny the Elder] used to say that "no book was so bad but some good might be got out of it."

No mortal man, moreover is wise at all moments.

Nor does their understanding, which is blinded and bent only on avarice, perceive that this very thing might be more safely done by means of science.

Pliny the Elder] used to say that "no book was so bad but some good might be got out of it.

nihil novum nihil varium nihil quod non semel spectasse sufficiat

Nullus est liber tam malus ut non aliqua parte prosit - There is no book so bad that it is not profitable on some part.