To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.
Quotes About Knowledge
Now I know what the atom looks like.
The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.
It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not the possession of but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.
Try to put well into practice what you already know. In so doing, you will, in good time, discover the hidden things you now inquire about.
As long as she thinks of a man, nobody objects to a woman thinking.
— Orlando
Teach the ignorant as much as you can. Society is to blame for not giving free education: it is responsible for the darkness it creates. the soul in darkness sins, but the real sinner is he who caused the darkness
— Les Misérables
I would walk along the quais when I had finished work or when I was trying to think something out. It was easier to think if I was walking and doing something or seeing people doing something that they understood.
— A Moveable Feast
had no need of a guide to learn ignorance
— Candide
An intelligent person, looking out of his eyes and hearkening in his ears, with a smile on his face all the time, will get more true education than many another in a life of heroic vigils".
— An Apology for Idlers
Education is a system of imposed ignorance.
— Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
But if I am young, thou shouldest look to my merits, not to my years.
— Antigone
In the make-up of human beings, intelligence counts for more than our hands, and that is our true strength.
— Metamorphoses
Innate in nearly every artistic nature is a wanton, treacherous penchant for accepting injustice when it creates beauty and showing sympathy for and paying homage to aristocratic privilege.
— Death in Venice and Other Tales
If you follow the classical pattern, you are understanding the routine, the tradition, the shadow -- you are not understanding yourself.
— Tao of Jeet Kune Do
I've long suspected dogs of being much smarter than people; I was even certain they could speak, but there was only some kind of stubbornness in them. They're extraordinary politicians: they notice every human step.
— The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol
The owl of Minerva begins its flight only with the coming of the dusk.
— Elements of the Philosophy of Right
we know little of the things for which we pray
— Canterbury Tales
During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What have been its fruits? More or less in all places, pride and indolence in the Clergy, ignorance and servility in the laity, in both, superstition, bigotry and persecution.
— A Memorial and Remonstrance, on the Religious Rights of Man: Written in 1784-85
We need a president with tremendous intelligence, smarts, cunning, strength and stamina.
It is a damn poor mind that can think of only one way to spell a word.
If there were a little more silence, if we all kept quiet...maybe we could understand something.
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
The moment you start arguing with an ignorant fool, you have already lost.