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.
One who imagines himself to be all-knowing will surely suffer on account of his ignorance.
Desire, ignorance, and inequality—this is the trinity of bondage.
Ignorance and apathy will eventually lead to the annihilation of humanity if left unchecked.
Those who sin out of ignorance must recognize that they are hoarding great wrongs in themselves.
How the city attracts all types and how the unwary must suffer from ignorance of its ways.
Given ignorance in the mix, stupidity was at least as common in politics as astute maneuvering