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Whoever enters the Way without a guide will take a hundred years to travel a two-day journey.
Rumi1207–1273III, 588 (tr. W. C. Chittick, 1983)
Is there any knowledge in the world which is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?
Bertrand Russell1872–1970The Problems of Philosophy (1912)
- Knowledge
- Philosophy
The world’s great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.1809–1894The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (1858), Ch. 6
Without love the acquisition of knowledge only increases confusion and leads to self-destruction.
Jiddu Krishnamurti1895–1986Education and the Significance of Life (1953)
- Knowledge
- Love
For all knowledge and wonder (which is the seed of knowledge) is an impression of pleasure in itself.
Francis Bacon1561–1626The Advancement of Learning (1605), Book I, i, 3
- Knowledge
Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.
Joseph Addison1672–1719The Guardian (1713), No. 111
- Knowledge
That writer does the most, who gives his reader the most knowledge, and takes from him the least time.
CCCharles Caleb Colton1777–1832Preface
- Knowledge
- Writing
No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.
John Steinbeck1902–1968The Winter of Our Discontent (1961), Part One, Ch. III
- Knowledge
Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.
Horace Mann1796–1859Lectures on Education (1855), Lecture 1
Errors of knowledge are not breaches of morality; no proper moral code can demand infallibility or omniscience.
Ayn Rand1905–1982The Virtue of Selfishness (1964)
- Knowledge
- Morality
Most often people seek in life occasions for persisting in their opinions rather than for educating themselves.
André Gide1869–1951“An Unprejudiced Mind,” p. 311
An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject, and how to avoid them.
Werner Heisenberg1901–1976Der Teil und das Ganze. Gespräche im Umkreis der Atomphysik (1969)
- Knowledge
There is now, in France, in each village, a lighted torch⁠—the schoolmaster⁠—and a mouth which blows upon it⁠—the curé.
Victor Hugo1802–1885Histoire d’un crime. Déposition d’un témoin (1877), Deuxième Journée. La lutte, ch. III: La barricade Saint-Antoine
- Anti-Religion
And I have written three books on the soul,
Proving absurd all written hitherto,
And putting us to ignorance again.
Robert Browning1812–1889Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Cleon.
- Knowledge
- Writing
Scientific knowledge helps us mainly because it makes the wonder to which we are called by nature rather more intelligible.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe1749–1832Maxims and Reflections (1833), Maxim 417, trans. Stopp
- Knowledge
- Science