I dig old books. ™
Est. 1998
 | ||
Home About Contact Terms Privacy |
Quotations about Knowledge
Any increase in knowledge anywhere helps pave the way for an increase in knowledge everywhere. ~Isaac Asimov
Knowledge is fuel, not fire. ~Walter Moxon, M.D., F.R.C.P. (1836–1886), "How Should We Study Medicine?," 1868
Knowledge.— A molehill removed from the mountain of our ignorance. ~"Specimens of a Patent Pocket Dictionary, For the use of those who wish to understand the meaning of things as well as words," The New Monthly Magazine and Literary Journal, 1824
Fill thy mind with useful knowledge and thou shalt avoid empty words. ~James Lendall Basford (1845–1915), Sparks from the Philosopher's Stone, 1882
We are ignorant of many things which would not be obscure to us if the reading of the ancients were familiar to us. (Multa ignoramus quae nobis non laterent si veterum lectio nobis fuit familiaris.) ~Latin saying, quoted in James A. Ballentine, A Law Dictionary, 1916
Pull and Push are inscribed on the doors of the Temple of Knowledge. ~James Lendall Basford (1845–1915), Seven Seventy Seven Sensations, 1897
Discovery does not mean knowledge, and knowledge does not mean publicity. ~Frederick S. Dellenbaugh, The Romance of The Colorado River, 1902
Knowledge is but a body, of which intelligence is the soul. ~Walter Moxon, M.D., F.R.C.P. (1836–1886), "How Should We Study Medicine?," 1868
Zeal without knowledge is the sister of folly. ~Proverb, quoted by Robert Christy, 1800s
Doubt is the first step of progress, and inquiry is the way to knowledge. ~Lemuel K. Washburn, Is the Bible Worth Reading and Other Essays, 1911
The knowledge of many minds consists principally of the news of the day and the talk at the last teaparty. ~James Lendall Basford (1845–1915), Sparks from the Philosopher's Stone, 1882
Many a man has gotten a bad fall from the tree of knowledge. ~"Poor Richard Junior's Philosophy," The Saturday Evening Post, 1903, George Horace Lorimer, editor
If there is one tree that man needs to eat of, it is the forbidden tree of the knowledge of good and evil; and if any knowledge will keep him alive and make him happy and perfect, it is just this knowledge which God forbid him to acquire. We are dying
The Tree of Knowledge always needs the sunshine of experience. ~"Poor Richard Junior's Philosophy," The Saturday Evening Post, 1906, George Horace Lorimer, editor
Better be ignorant of a matter than half know it. ~Publilius Syrus, 1st century BCE, from the Latin by D. Lyman, 1856
And let a scholar all Earth's volumes carry,
He will be but a walking dictionary,
A mere articulate clock that doth but speak
By others' arts; when wheels wear, or springs break,
Or any fault is in him, he can mend
No more than clocks; but at set hours must spend
His mouth as clocks do: if too fast speech go,
He cannot stay it, nor haste if too slow.
~George Chapman, Tears of Peace, 1609
Principles are the important things; the more you have of them, the more knowledge you can carry. ~Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)
Yes, we still don't know what magnetism is and why a magnet will attract a nail and not cottage cheese. The atom is more of a riddle today than it was three thousand years ago. We don't know really what light is. We don't know what life is. We speak of electrons and we know how they work, more or less, but not what they are and how they came to be. Actually, our knowledge is a little island in an infinite ocean of
Encyclopædiac folios
Have I searched, knowledge to find,
Till my eyes became half-blind,
And a wart grew on my nose.
Still, my quest was not in vain;
The goal I reached, of all my strife:
I can tell in four lines plain,
All that knowledge speaks of life.
Chance has woven hopeless fate:
Nothing alters, naught is new:
Joy and pain and love and hate
In a vain circle 'round pursue.
~John Gould Fletcher, "Knowledge"
We are here and it is now: further than that all human knowledge is moonshine. ~H.L. Mencken (1880–1956), The Smart Set: A Magazine of Cleverness, February 1915
To be master of any branch of knowledge, you must master those which lie next to it; and thus to know anything you must know all. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1886
It's silly when any man assumes that he knows it all. It's tragic when he does! ~Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)
Oftentimes the supposed increasers of knowledge have only given a new name, and a worse, to what every body knew before. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827
The saying that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing is, to my mind, a very dangerous adage. If knowledge is real and genuine, I do not believe that it is other than a very valuable possession, however infinitesimal its quantity may be. Indeed, if a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger? ~T. H. Huxley
An informed and responsible citizenry is the watchdog of monolithic systems. It is no accident that whenever a dictator has risen to power the intellectuals in society have been persecuted. ~R. D. Lawrence, "To Kill or Not To Kill," A Shriek in the Forest Night: Wilderness Encounters, 1996
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also. ~C. G. Jung
All that I know does not even help me to know it. ~Antonio Porchia (1886–1968), Voces, 1943–1966, translated from the Spanish by W.S. Merwin (1927–2019), Voices, 1988
Home About Contact Terms Privacy | ||
|
www.quotegarden.com/knowledge.html
Last saved 2025 Jan 12 Sun 17:19 CST