Quotes about Knowledge
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.
— Cicero
If you have a garden in your library, nothing will fail
— Cicero
What you don't know won't hurt you. A dubious maxim: sometimes what you don't know can hurt you very much.
— Margaret Atwood
Not real can tell us about real.
— Margaret Atwood
Death is much too high a price to pay for the satisfaction of curiosity, needless to say.
— Margaret Atwood
It must have been an endless breathing in: between the wish to know and the wish to praise there was no seam.
— Margaret Atwood
Our big mistake was teaching them to read. We won't make that mistake again.
— Margaret Atwood
He has something we don't have, he has the word.
— Margaret Atwood
Our problem right now is that we're so specialized that if the lights go out, there are a huge number of people who are not going to know what to do. But within every dystopia there's a little utopia.
— Margaret Atwood
What you don't know won't hurt you.
— Margaret Atwood
Forbidden things are open to the imagination. That was why Eve ate the Apple of Knowledge, said Aunt Vidala: too much imagination. So it was better not to know some things. Otherwise your petals would get scattered.
— Margaret Atwood
Maybe I don't really want to know what's going on. Maybe I'd rather not know. Maybe I couldn't bear to know. The Fall was a fall from innocence to knowledge.
— Margaret Atwood