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.
If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you, and you'll never learn.
Ignorance and obscurantism have never produced anything other than flocks of slaves for tyranny.
I don't think the thing is to be well known, but being worth knowing.
Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
When the idle poor
Become the idle rich
You'll never know
just who is who
or who is which.
The term knowledge raises philosophical eyebrows (strictly speaking, it should be called belief).
"Faith is a large epistemic tool i.e. method of acquiring new knowledge for which reason is blind."