Knowledge Quotes
Francis Bacon, Shakespeare, John Locke, Samuel Johnson and Einstein are all near the top, which gives the page its character: mostly people who thought about how we know things, rather than about how to feel clever. Johnson gives the most useful single line, in Boswell’s Life (1791): “Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.” Wittgenstein, in On Certainty (1969), says that knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.
A lot of the quotes people look for here are flagged. “As for me, all I know is that I know nothing” is credited to Socrates; see the note on the Wisdom page. “Contempt prior to investigation” is credited to Einstein, and a line about putting the Lord at every turn in the refuge of a miracle is credited to Galileo.
Ignorance is not bliss — it is oblivion. Determined ignorance is the hastiest kind of oblivion.
The only true journey of knowledge is from the depth of one being to the heart of another.
Omnipotence and omniscience are the end of power and knowledge.
Knowledge is the conformity of the object and the intellect.
You never know how useful even seemingly insignificant knowledge can be.
Human life is not eternal, but science and knowledge cross the threshold of centuries.
Slickness of presentation didn’t imply comprehensiveness of knowledge.
Knowledge is the distilled essence of our intuitions, corroborated by experience.
I think it's important to live life with a knowledge of its mystery, and of your own mystery.
The right to hope is the most powerful human motivation I know.
All knowledge is acquired through the application of reason and has a physical basis.
Most scientific cartography is concerned with the dissemination of spatial knowledge.