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Knowledge: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations
Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.— ADDISON — The Guardian. Letter of Alexander to Aristotle. No. 111.
For all knowledge and wonder (which is the seed of knowledge) is an impression of pleasure in itself.— BACON — Advancement of Learning. Bk. I.
Knowledge bloweth up, but charity buildeth up.— BACON — Rendering of I Cor. VIII. I.
Knowledge is power.— BACON — Meditationes Sacræ.
Pursuit of knowledge under difficulties. Title given by LORD BROUGHAM to a book published under the superintendence of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. 1830.
Knowledge by suffering entereth, And Life is perfected by Death.— E. B. BROWNING — A Vision of Poets. Conclusion. St. 37.
What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted.— BURNS — Address to Unco Guid. St. 8.
Deep sighted in intelligences, Ideas, atoms, influences.— BUTLER — Hudibras. Pt. I. Canto I. L. 533.
He knew whats'ever 's to be known, But much more than he knew would own.— BUTLER — Hudibras. Pt. II. Canto III. L. 297.
He knew what's what, and that's as high As metaphysic wit can fly.— BUTLER — Hudibras. Pt. 1. Canto I. L. 149.
Nor do I know what is become Of him, more than the Pope of Rome.— BUTLER — Hudibras. Pt. 1. Canto 3. L. 263.
Knowledge is not happiness, and science But an exchange of ignorance for that Which is another kind of ignorance. น.— BYRON — Manfred. Act II. Sc. 4.
Know ye the land where the cypress and myrtle Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime, Where the rage of the vulture, the love of the turtle, Now melt into sorrow, now madden to crime?— BYRON — Bride of Abydos. Canto I.
For love is ever the beginning of Knowledge, as fire is of light.— CARLYLE — Essays. Death of Goethe.
What is all Knowledge too but recorded Experience, and a product of History; of which, therefore, Reasoning and Belief, no less than Action and Passion, are essential materials?— CARLYLE — Essays. On History.
When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it; this is knowledge.— CONFUCIUS — Analects. Bk. II. Ch. XVII.
Knowledge and Wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connexion. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men. Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.— COWPER — The Task. Bk. VI. L. 88,
Knowledge is proud that he has learn'd so much; Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.— COWPER — The Task. Bk. VI. L. 96.
Knowledge comes Of learning well retain'd, unfruitful else.— DANTE — Vision of Paradise. Canto V. L. 41.
Since knowledge is but sorrow's spy, It is not safe to know. C.— WM. DAVENANT — The Just Italian. Act V. Sc. 1.
To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.— BENJ. DISRAELI — Sybil. Bk. I.
Chap. V. Knowledge is the antidote to fear, - Knowledge, Use and Reason, with its higher aids.— EMERSON — Society and Solitude.
Courage. Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.— EMERSON — Letters and Social Aims.
Quotation and Originality. There is no knowledge that is not power.— EMERSON — Society and Solitude. Old
Age. Who can direct, when all pretend to know?— GOLDSMITH — The Traveller. L. 64.
The first step to self-knowledge is self-distrust. Nor can we attain to any kind of knowledge, except by a like process. J. C. and A. W. HARE-Guesses at Truth. P. 454. A desire of knowledge is the natural feeling of mankind; and every human being whose mind is not debauched, will be willing to give all that he has to get knowledge.— SAM'L JOHNSON — Boswell's Life of
Johnson. Conversation on Saturday, July 30, 1763. Knowledge is more than equivalent to force.— SAM'L JOHNSON — Rasselas.
Chap. XIII. Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.— SAM'L JOHNSON — Boswell's Life of
Johnson. 1775. The improvement of the understanding is for two ends: first, for our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver and make out that knowledge to others.— LOCKE — Some Thoughts Concerning
Reading and Study. Appendix B.
A kind of semi-Solomon, half-knowing everything, from the cedar to the hyssop.— MACAULAY — (About Brougham). Life and Letters. Vol. I. P. 175.
Diffused knowledge immortalizes itself.— SIR JAMES MACKINTOSH — Vindicia
Gallica. Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.— HORACE MANN — Lectures and Reports
on Education. Lecture I. Only by knowledge of that which is not Thyself, shall thyself be learned. OWEN MEREDITH (Lord Lytton)- Know Thyself. I went into the temple, there to hear The teachers of our law, and to propose What might improve my knowledge or their own.— MILTON — Paradise Regained. Bk. I. L. 211.
All things I thought I knew; but now confess The more I know I know, I know the less.— S. OWEN — Works. Bk. VI. 39.
In vain sedate reflections we would make When half our knowledge we must snatch, not take.— POPE — Moral Essays. Ep. I. L. 39.
That virtue only makes our bliss below, And all our knowledge is ourselves to know.— POPE — Essay on Man. Ep. IV. L. 397.
Then I began to think, that it is very true which is commonly said, that the one-half of the world knoweth not how the other half liveth.— RABELAIS — Works. Bk. II. Ch. XXXII.
Far must thy researches go Wouldst thou learn the world to know; Thou must tempt the dark abyss Wouldst thou prove what Being is; Naught but firmness gains the prize, Naught but fullness makes us wise, Buried deep truth e'er lies.— SCHILLER — Proverbs of Confucius.
Bowring's trans. Wouldst thou know thyself, observe the actions of others. Wouldst thou other men know, look thou within thine own heart.— SCHILLER — Votive Tablets. The Key.
And seeing ignorance is the curse of God, Knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.— Shakespeare — Henry VI. Pt. II. Act IV. Sc. 7. L. 78
If you can look into the seeds of time, And say which grain will grow and which will not; Speak then to me.— Shakespeare — Macbeth. Act I. Sc. 3. L. 58.
I know a hawk from a handsaw.— Shakespeare — Hamlet. Act II. Sc. 2. L. 394.
But the full sum of me *** Is an unlesson'd girl, unschool'd, unpractis'd; Happy in this, she is not yet so old But she may learn. C.— Shakespeare — Merchant of Venice. Act III. Sc Sc. 2. L. 159.
Too much to know is to know naught but fame.— Shakespeare — Love's Labour's Lost. Act I. Sc. 1. L. 92.
We know what we are, but know not what we may be.— Shakespeare — Hamlet. Act IV. Sc. 5. L. 42.
And thou my minde aspire to higher things; Grow rich in that which never taketh rust.— SIR PHILIP SIDNEY — Sonnet. Leave
me, O Love. Sweet food of sweetly uttered knowledge.— SIR PHILIP SIDNEY — Defence of Poesy.
A life of knowledge is not often a life of injury and crime.— SYDNEY SMITH — Pleasures of Knowledge.
Knowledge alone is the being of Nature, Giving a soul to her manifold features, Lighting through paths of the primitive darkness, The footsteps of Truth and the vision of Song.— BAYARD TAYLOR — Kilimandjaro. St. 2.
Animi cultus quasi quidam humanitatis cibus. The cultivation of the mind is a kind of food supplied for the soul of man. C.— CICERO — De Finibus Bonorum et
Malorum. V. 19. Nam non solum scire aliquid, artis est, sed quædam ars etiam docendi. Not only is there an art in knowing a thing, but also a certain art in teaching it.— CICERO — De Legibus. II. 19.
Nec enim ignorare deus potest, quâ mente quisque sit. God cannot be ignorant of a man's character.— CICERO — De Divinatione. II. 60.
Nescire autem quid ante quam natus sis acciderit, id est semper esse puerum. Not to know what happened before one was born is always to be a child.— CICERO — De Oratore. XXXIV.
Nec scire fas est omnia. One cannot know everything. HORACE Carmina. IV. 4.
Faites comme si je ne le savais pas. Act as though I knew nothing.— MOLIÈRE — Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme.
II. 6. Il connoît l'univers, et ne se connoît pas. He knoweth the universe, and himself he knoweth not.— LA FONTAINE — Fables. VIII. 26.
Laissez dire les sots: le savoir a son prix. Let fools the studious despise, There's nothing lost by being wise.— LA FONTAINE — Fables. VIII. 19.
Vous parlez devant un homme à qui tout Naples est connu. You speak before a man to whom all Naples is known.— MOLIÈRE- — L'Avarc. V. 5.