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.
Bipolar is real. Here in Africa, we tend not to know about it due to ignorance or overlook it.
It was easy to cover up ignorance by the mystical word “intuition.”
Deep ignorance, but still a kind that knew its limits. The limits were crucial.
You are a fool, sir priest. Ignorance may excuse you. It will certainly kill you.
Sadly, the combination of poverty and ignorance is toxic and deadly.
It is how societies are organized that says how they will eradicate ignorance.
No nation can advance while half of its members are condemned to ignorance.