Quotes about knowledge

I keep six honest serving-men:

(They taught me all I knew)

Their names are What and Where and When

And How and Why and Who.

The curious thing is that the more the mind takes in, the more it has space for, and that all one's ideas are like the Irish people at home who live in the different corners of a room and take boarders.

There is no power relation without the correlative constitution of a field of knowledge, nor any knowledge that does not presuppose and constitute at the same time power relations

Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject — the actual enemy is the unknown.

You can't change what you don't understand.

A man who can't read only knows what other folks tell him.

No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.

He that knows anything, knows this, in the first place, that he need not seek long for instances of his ignorance."

People who are without writing have a fantastically precise knowledge of their environment and all their resources. All these things we have lost, but we did not lose them for nothing; we are now able to drive an automobile without being crushed at each moment, for example, or in the evening to turn on our television or radio. This implies a training of mental capacities which ‘primitive’ peoples don’t have because they don’t need them.

Whatever there is to know,

That shall we know one day.

You were not there for the beginning. You will not be there for the end. Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative

A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.