KNOWLEDGE QUOTES VII

quotations about knowledge

Seek knowledge from the purest source.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims


There is, perhaps, one universal truth about all forms of human cognition: the ability to deal with knowledge is hugely exceeded by the potential knowledge contained in man's environment. To cope with this diversity, man's perception, his memory, and his thought processes early become governed by strategies for protecting his limited capacities from the confusion of overloading. We tend to perceive things schematically, for example, rather than in detail, or we represent a class of diverse things by some sort of averaged "typical instance."

JEROME S. BRUNER

Art as a Mode of Knowing


Knowledge alone doth not amount to Virtue; but certainly there is no Virtue without Knowledge.

BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE

Moral and Religious Aphorisms


The less we know, the longer the explanation.

BRIAN HERBERT & KEVEN J. ANDERSON

Dune: House Corrino


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

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims


The surest way of concealing from others the boundaries of one's own knowledge is not to overstep them.

GIACOMO LEOPARDI

Leopardi: Poems and Prose


Folks don't like to have somebody around knowin' more than they do. It aggravates 'em.

HARPER LEE

To Kill a Mockingbird


The world grows more enlightened. Knowledge is more equally diffused.

JOHN ADAMS

Discourses on Davila


I do not approve the maxim which desires a man to know a little of everything. Superficial knowledge, knowledge without principles, is almost always useless and sometimes harmful knowledge.

LUC DE CLAPIERS

MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES, Reflections and Maxims


I don't know what's the matter with people: they don't learn by understanding, they learn by some other way -- by rote or something. Their knowledge is so fragile!

RICHARD FEYNMAN

Surely You're Joking


Yet with great toil all that I can attain
By long experience, and in learned schools,
Is for to know my knowledge is but vain,
And those that think them wise, are greatest fools.

SIR WILLIAM ALEXANDER

EARL OF STIRLING, The Tragedy of Croesus


Knowledge is proud that he has learn'd so much;
Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.

WILLIAM COWPER

The Task


The highest knowledge can be nothing more than the shortest and clearest road to truth; all the rest is pretension, not performance, mere verbiage and grandiloquence, from which we can learn nothing.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon


The knowledge of man is as the waters, some descending from above, and some springing from beneath: the one informed by the light of nature, the other inspired by divine revelation.

FRANCIS BACON

The Advancement of Learning

Tags: Francis Bacon


Is not the fraction which you know, in relation to their totality, what a single number is to infinity?

HONORÉ DE BALZAC

Seraphita

Tags: Honoré de Balzac


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


How dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.

MARY SHELLEY

Frankenstein


How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in truth!

SOPHOCLES

Oedipus Rex


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


Knowledge will soon become folly, when good sense ceases to be its guardian.

WELLINS CALCOTT

Thoughts Moral and Divine