KNOWLEDGE QUOTES VIII

quotations about knowledge

You have to live to really know things.

DAN SIMMONS

Hyperion


What we know is built on what we do not know.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims


A man who is ready to converse but has nothing to say worth hearing, is a well without water; he that is rich in knowledge but reserved is a well without a bucket.

JOHN THORNTON

Maxims and Directions for Youth


We just do not see how very specialized the use of "I know" is.

LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN

On Certainty


We ought to be ten times as hungry for knowledge as for food for the body.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


If you cannot make knowledge your servant, make it your friend.

BALTASAR GRACIAN

The Art of Worldly Wisdom


With the growth of knowledge our ideas must from time to time be organized afresh. The change takes place usually in accordance with new maxims as they arise, but it always remains provisional.

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe


An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

The Way to Wealth: Ben Franklin on Money and Success

Tags: Benjamin Franklin


The less we know, the longer the explanation.

BRIAN HERBERT & KEVEN J. ANDERSON

Dune: House Corrino


The misapplication of our knowledge is, in general, more injurious to our happiness and interest, than either the privations of ignorance, or the disqualifications of inexperience.

NORMAN MACDONALD

Maxims and Moral Reflections


All knowledge, when separated from justice and virtue, is seen to be cunning and not wisdom.

PLATO

Menexenus


To receive instruction and knowledge is as natural as to receive the light of the sun, if a man opens his eyes.

BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE

Moral and Religious Aphorisms


For knowing is spoken of in three ways: it may be either universal knowledge or knowledge proper to the matter in hand or actualising such knowledge; consequently three kinds of error also are possible.

ARISTOTLE

Prior Analytics

Tags: Aristotle


The real scholar learns how to evolve the unknown from the known, and draws near the master.

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe


You must know all there is to know in your particular field and keep on the alert for new knowledge. The least difference in knowledge between you and another man may spell his success and your failure.

HENRY FORD

Theosophist Magazine, Feb. 1930


Knowledge is but an instrument, which the profligate and the flagitious may use as well as the brave and the just.

HORACE MANN

Thoughts


When the panting and thirsting soul first drinks the delicious waters of truth, when the moral and intellectual tastes and desires first seize the fragrant fruits that flourish in the garden of knowledge, then does the child catch a glimpse and foretaste of heaven.

HORACE MANN

Thoughts


The end of man is knowledge but there's one thing he can't know. He can't know whether knowledge will save him or kill him. He will be killed, all right, but he can't know whether he is killed because of the knowledge which he has got or because of the knowledge which he hasn't got and which if he had it would save him.

ROBERT PENN WARREN

All the King's Men


Knowledge is power. Power to do evil ... or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge itself is not evil.

VERONICA ROTH

Allegiant


A man may do very well with a very little knowledge, and scarce be found out in mixed company; everybody is so much more ready to produce his own than to call for a display of your acquisition.

CHARLES LAMB

"The Old and the New Schoolmaster", Elia and the Last Essays of Elia