Quotes About Knowledge

Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

I've studied now Philosophy And Jurisprudence, Medicine,— And even, alas! Theology,— From end to end, with labor keen; And here, poor fool! with all my lore I stand, no wiser than before:

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is delightful to transport one's self into the spirit of the past, to see how a wise man has thought before us.

Chi non conosce le lingue straniere non conosce nulla della propria.

Well, that's Philosophy I've read, And Law and Medicine, and I fear Theology, too, from A to Z; Hard studies all, that have cost me dear. And so I sit, poor silly man No wiser now than when I began.

It is much easier to recognise error than to find truth; for error lies on the surface and may be overcome; but truth lies in the depths, and to search for it is not given to every one.

Anyone that doesn't know foreign languages knows nothing of his own.

I call him happy who still hopes to rise To the surface in this sea of error. The very things we don't know, we could use And what we do know we have no use for.

Real obscurantism is not to hinder the spread of what is true, clear, and useful, but to bring into vogue what is false.

Într-adev?r ?tiu multe, dar a? vrea s? ?tiu totul.

Da steh ich nun, ich armer Tor, und bin so klug als wie zuvor.

Error is related to truth as sleeping is to waking. I have observed that when one has been in error, one turns to truth as though revitalized.

What a man does not understand, he does not possess.

Ayr?ca yüre?imi de?il, akl?m? ve yeteneklerimi be?eniyor, oysa her ?eyin kayna?? yürektir: tüm gücün, tüm mutlulu?un, tüm kederin. Ah, benim bildiklerimi herkes bilebilir - ama yüre?imdir yaln?zca bana ait olan.

He who does not know foreign languages does not know anything about his own.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Ah, lo que yo sé, lo puede saber cualquiera: mi corazón lo tengo yo solamente.

The most foolish of all errors is for clever young men to believe that they forfeit their originality in recognising a truth which has already been recognised by others.

The things I know, every man can know, but, oh, my heart is mine alone!

O glücklich, wer noch hoffen kann, aus diesem Meer des Irrtums aufzutauchen! Was man nicht weiß, das eben brauchte man, und was man weiß, kann man nicht brauchen.

Throughout their whole existence men are blind; So, Faust, be thou like them at last.

He who possesses science and art also has religion; but he who possesses neither of those two, let him have religion!

Îmi pre?uie?te inteligen?a ?i talentele mai mult decât inima, care e totu?i singura mea mândrie, care e singurul izvor al oric?rei for?e, al oric?rei fericiri, al oric?rui necaz. Ah, ceea ce ?tiu poate ?ti oricine, dar inima mea e numai a mea!