Quotes about Knowledge

If he be a stranger in the world, that knows not the things that are in it; why not be a stranger as well, that wonders at the the things that are done in it?

Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

I am not ashamed to confess I am ignorant of what I do not know.

Some people will say that memory fades away as the years pass. Of course it does if you don't exercise it or aren't very bright to begin with. -- How to grow old: ancient wisdom for the second half of life.

There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.

Nothing that is devoid of justice can be honorable. It was well said by Plato: "Not only is knowledge, when divorced from justice, to be termed subtlety rather than wisdom; but also the soul prompt to encounter danger, if moved thereto by self-interest, and not by the common good, should have the reputation of audacity rather than of courage.

If you have a garden in your library, nothing will fail

What you don't know won't hurt you. A dubious maxim: sometimes what you don't know can hurt you very much.

Not real can tell us about real.

Death is much too high a price to pay for the satisfaction of curiosity, needless to say.

It must have been an endless breathing in: between the wish to know and the wish to praise there was no seam.

Our big mistake was teaching them to read. We won't make that mistake again.