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Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood.
Henry Miller1891–1980Tropic of Capricorn (1939)
- Knowledge
A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one.
Molière1622–1673Les Femmes Savantes (1672), Act IV, sc. iii
- Intelligence
Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
Michel de Montaigne1533–1592Essais (wr. 1571–92; pub. 1580–95), Book I, Ch. 31. Of Divine Ordinances (tr. Cotton, rev. W. Hazlitt, 1842)
- Faith
- Knowledge
You have to study a great deal to know a little.
Montesquieu1689–1755Pensées et Fragments Inédits de Montesquieu (1899)
- Knowledge
If you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this but that you first make thieves and then punish them?
Thomas More1478–1535Utopia (1516), Book IIn context
- Justice
I do not want art for a few, any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.
William Morris1834–1896The Decorative Arts (1877)
- Art
- Freedom
Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.
Toni Morrison1931–2019Nobel Prize Lecture (1993)
- Knowledge
- Talking
I know more than I can express in words, and the little I can express would not have been expressed, had I not known more.
Vladimir Nabokov1899–1977Strong Opinions (1973), p. 45
- Knowledge
- Writing
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
Napoleon1769–1821
Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.
Napoleon1769–1821
Young man, in mathematics you don’t understand things. You just get used to them.
John von Neumann1903–1957Reply to a physicist friend, per Felix T. Smith; as quoted in Gary Zukav, The Dancing Wu Li Masters (1984 ed.), p. 208n
- Knowledge
- Science
If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
Isaac Newton1643–1727Letter to Robert Hooke (15 February 1676) [dated as 5 February 1675 using the Julian calendar with March 25th rather than January 1st as New Years Day, equivalent to 15 February 1676 by Gregorian reckonings.] A facsimile of the original is online at
- Knowledge
I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Isaac Newton1643–1727Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Discoveries of Sir Isaac Newton (1855) by Sir David Brewster (Volume II. Ch. 27)
- Knowledge
What are our schools for if not for indoctrination against communism?
Richard Nixon1913–1994Speech before a meeting of San Diego educators during the 1962 gubernatorial election.
To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
George Orwell1903–1950“In Front of Your Nose,” Tribune (22 March 1946)
- Knowledge