Quotes About Knowledge

There are many kinds of eyes. Even the sphinx has eyes - and consequently there are many kinds of 'truths,' and consequently there is no truth

Knowledge kills action, for action requires a state of being in which we are covered with the veil of illusion.

My wisdom has accumulated long like a cloud, it becomes stiller and darker. So does all wisdom which shall one day bear lightnings.-

It is a curious thing that God learned Greek when he wished to turn author--and that he did not learn it better.

There is no pre-established harmony between the furtherance of truth and the well-being of mankind.

Rather know nothing than half-know many things! Rather be a fool on one's own account than a wise man in the opinion of others!

The true world -- we have abolished. What world has remained? The apparent one perhaps? But no! With the true world we have also abolished the apparent one.

There is only a perspective seeing, only a perspective knowing; and the more affects we allow to speak about one thing, the more eyes, different eyes, we can use to observe one thing, the more complete will our concept of this thing, our objectivity, be.

All sciences are now under the obligation to prepare the ground for the future task of the philosopher, which is to solve the problem of value, to determine the true hierarchy of values.

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.

I want, once and for all, not to know many things. Wisdom requires moderation in knowledge as in other things.

We are unknown to ourselves, we men of knowledge--and with good reason. We have never sought ourselves--how could it happen that we should ever find ourselves?

All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?

What are man's truths ultimately? Merely his irrefutable errors.

Something might be true, even if it is also harmful and dangerous in the highest degree; indeed, it might be part of the essential nature of existence that to understand it completely would lead to our own destruction.

history would be nothing but a record of stupidity save for the cunning

If you still experience the stars as something over you, you still don't have the eyes of a knower.

Among the things that can drive a thinker to despair is the knowledge that the illogical is necessary for man and that much good comes from it.

The great wars of the present age are the effects of the study of history.

we know the way; we got our knowledge of it from thousands of years in the labyrinth. Who else has found it?—The man of today?—"I don't know either the way out or the way in; I am whatever doesn't know either the way out or the way in"—so sighs the man of today… . This is the sort of modernity that made us ill,—we sickened on lazy peace

Whoever knows he is deep tries to be clear, but whoever wants to seem deep to the crowd tries to be obscure. For the crowd supposes that anything it cannot see to the bottom must be deep: it is so timid and goes so unwillingly into the water.

The knight of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies, but also to hate his friends.

We are unknown to ourselves, we knowers, and with good reason. We have never looked at ourselves.