Today’s youth know very well where and how to use the strength in their arms and their knowledge.
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.
I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.
Of troubles know I none,
Of pleasures know I many —
I rove beneath the sun
Without a single penny.
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
Maybe you have to know darkness before you can appreciate the light.