Quotes About Knowledge

Why then should witless man so much misweene That nothing is but that which he hath seene?

Books should be cherished, like children, books are for the next generation, like children, like history.

Some of his newly acquired knowledge brought pain, as knowledge is apt to do.

Leslie reads too much

Women didn't 'learn' how to cook - you were born knowing how.

Books everywhere. On the shelves and on the small space above the rows of books and all along the floor and under chairs, books that I have read, books that I have not read.

I saw and heard, and knew at last The How and Why of all things, past, and present, and forevermore.

For men that are afraid to die Must warm their hands before a lie; The fire that's built of What is Known Will chill the marrow in the bone.

What can I give for Your knowledge Of when to expand And when to contract— This instructed, more academic college Of when to act?

We know this apodictic rock beneath our feet. That dogmatic sun above our heads. The world of dreams, the agony of love and the foresight of death. That is all we know. And all we need to know? Challenge that statement.

A pessimist is simply an optimist in full possession of the facts.

That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding.

Ah yes, the head is full of books. The hard part is to force them down through the bloodstream and out through the fingers.

We know so very little about this strange planet we live on, this haunted world where all answers lead only to more mystery.

If it's knowledge and wisdom you want, then seek out the company of those who do real work for an honest purpose.

What do we know? What do we really know? He licks his dried cracked lips. We know this apodictic rock beneath our feet. That dogmatic sun above our heads. The world of dreams, the agony of love and the foreknowledge of death. That is all we know. And all we need to know? Challenge that statement. I challenge that statement. With what? I don't know.

The more we learn of outer space and inner space, of quasars and quarks, of Big Bangs and Little Blips, the more remote, abstract and intellectually inconsequential it all becomes.

The mornings therefore ....are all the sweeter in the knowledge of what the afternoon is likely to bring.

We know this apodictic rock beneath our feet. That dogmatic sun above our heads. The world of dreams, the agony of love and the foreknowledge of death. That is all we know.

Language makes a mighty loose net with which to go fishing for simple facts, when facts are infinite.

To the intelligent man or woman, life appears infinitely mysterious. But the stupid have an answer for every question.

Proverbs save us the trouble of thinking. What we call folk wisdom is often no more than a kind of expedient stupidity.

You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.

I think that's foolishness on the part of the playwright to write about himself. People don't know anything about themselves.