William Shakespeare on Knowledge
1564–1616 England
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If you can look into the seeds of time,
And say which grain will grow and which will not;
Speak then to me.
Macbeth (1605)
And seeing ignorance is the curse of God,
Knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
Madam, thou errest: I say, there is no darkness, but ignorance; in which thou art more puzzled, than the Egyptians in their fog.
O thou monster, Ignorance, how deformed dost thou look!
The common curse of mankind,—folly and ignorance.
Too much to know is to know naught but fame.
We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
Crowns have their compass—length of days their date—
Triumphs their tomb—felicity, her fate—
Of nought but earth can earth make us partaker,
But knowledge makes a king most like his Maker.
But the full sum of me * *
Is an unlesson'd girl, unschool'd, unpractis'd;
Happy in this, she is not yet so old
But she may learn.