Quotes about Knowledge

we begin by knowing little and believing much, and we sometimes end by inverting the quantities.

But something she yearned for by which her life might be filled with action at once rational and ardent; and since the time was gone by for guiding visions and spiritual directors, since prayer heightened yearning but not instruction, what lamp was there but knowledge? Surely learned men kept-the only oil; and who more learned than Mr. Casaubon? Thus

I went into science a great deal myself at one time; but I saw it would not do. It leads to everything; you can let nothing alone.

But it is very difficult to be learned; it seems as if people were worn out on the way to great thoughts, and can never enjoy them because they are too tired.

Who knows that about anybody?

One couldn't carry on life comfortably without a little blindness to the fact that everything has been said better than we can put it ourselves.

T]he Meyricks, whose various knowledge had been acquired by the irregular foraging to which clever girls have usually been reduced...

She did not want to deck herself with knowledge—to wear it loose from the nerves and blood that fed her action

Ignorance is not so damnable as humbug; but when it prescribes pills it may happen to do more harm.

It was said of him, that Lydgate could do anything he liked, but he had certainly not yet liked to do anything remarkable. He was a vigorous animal with a ready understanding, but no spark had yet kindled in him an intellectual passion; knowledge seemed to him a very superficial affair, easily mastered: judging from the conversation of his elders, he had apparently got already more than was necessary for mature life.

When land is gone and money's spent, Then learning is most excellent.

Nay, Miss, I'n got to keep count o' the flour an' corn; I can't do wi' knowin' so many things besides my work. That's what brings folks to the gallows,—knowin' everything but what they'n got to get their bread by. An' they're mostly lies, I think, what's printed i' the books: them printed sheets are, anyhow, as the men cry i' the streets.