knowledge Quotes

“People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile

topic:knowledge talking ignorance

“I realized that I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss.”

― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

topic:knowledge youth value

“She said that I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of a lack of knowledge.”

― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

topic:knowledge understanding ignorance

“Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know men.”

― Confucius, Analects

topic:knowledge men words

“Of what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to the mind when it has once seized on it like a lichen on the rock.”

― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

topic:knowledge mind

“Learn from me, if not by my precepts, at least by my example, 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 become greater than his nature will...”

― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

topic:knowledge world greatness

“Information and knowledge: two currencies that have never gone out of style.”

― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

topic:knowledge

“For anyone who had experienced just once the perfect understanding of one single thing, and had truly tasted how knowledge is accomplished, would recognize that of the infinity of other truths he understands nothing.”

― Galileo Galilei, Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems

topic:truth knowledge understanding

“I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn't know.”

― Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi

topic:knowledge humility

“our goal is nothing less than a complete description of the universe we live in.”

― Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time

topic:knowledge science universe

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