Quotes about knowledge

It is not so much that there are ironies of history, it is that history itself is ironic. It is not that there are no certainties, it is that it is an absolute certainty that there are no certainties. It is not only true that the test of knowledge is an acute and cultivated awareness of how little one knows (as Socrates knew so well), it is true that the unbounded areas and fields of one’s ignorance are now expanding in such a way, and at such a velocity, as to make the contemplation of them almost fantastically beautiful.

Many are our joys

In youth, but oh! what happiness to live

When every hour brings palpable access

Of knowledge, when all knowledge is delight,

And sorrow is not there!

"It is far better for the profits of our purse to be taken from us than to be robbed of the riches of our minds and souls."

Teresa seemed older than adolescent Jim had been, both more knowledgeable about the universe and angrier with it. Maybe the two went hand in hand.

We all automatically assume that those who write and who put their knowledge down in texts have something more valuable to offer than those who simply live their knowledge and use it to inform their lives.

My father was a walking encyclopedia, and he flipped his pages with the zeal and precision of a magician.

“All magic means is a line between knowledge and ignorance,” Ortega responded. “A magician is someone who can do something you don’t know how to do. All technology, for example, is magic to a primitive.”

“Knowledge can be a hindrance to right action,” answered the little man. “There are those who hold that, if we but knew the full ramifications of even our least deeds, the ensuing concatenations of cause and effect would paralyze us with indecision.”

In the past, information was treasured... These days we live on the shore of an ocean of knowledge... with regular s that threaten out sanity.

Knowledge is not a substitute for ingenuity, merely an accelerant.

When so much is lost in the dark of time there must be a myth to glorify that lost knowledge.

In fact, of course, there is no secret knowledge; no one knows anything that can’t be found on a shelf in the public library.