knowledge Quotes

“It's my world, and I don't want any other. What it hasn't got is not worth having, and what it doesn't know is not worth knowing.”

― Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

topic:knowledge world worth

“That the knowledge at which geometry aims is knowledge of the eternal, and not of aught perishing and transient.”

― Plato, The Republic

topic:knowledge eternity

“Who indeed will set bounds to human ingenuity? Who will assert that everything in the universe capable of being perceived is already discovered and known?”

― Galileo Galilei, Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina of Tuscany

topic:knowledge universe

“Anyone who is honestly trying to be a Christian will soon find his intelligence being sharpened: one of the reasons why it needs no special education to be a Christian is that Christianity is an education itself.”

― C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

topic:knowledge education

“It is therefore worth while to search out the bounds between opinion and knowledge; and examine by what measures, in things whereof we have no certain knowledge, we ought to regulate our assent and moderate our persuasion.”

― John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

topic:knowledge opinion

“At Oran, as elsewhere, for lack of time and thinking, people have to love one another without knowing much about it.”

― Albert Camus, The Plague

topic:love time knowledge

“All we can know is that we know nothing.”

― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

topic:knowledge humility

“it was not knowledge but unity that she desired, not inscriptions on tablets, nothing that could be written in any language known to men, but intimacy itself, which is knowledge”

― Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

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“Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used, till they are seasoned.”

― Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table

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“And, in fine, of false sciences I thought I knew the worth sufficiently to escape being deceived by the professions of an alchemist, the predictions of an astrologer, the impostures of a magician, or by the artifices and boasting of any of those...”

― René Descartes, Discourse on the Method

topic:knowledge science ignorance

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