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Learn from me, if not by my precepts, at least by my example, how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge, and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who aspires to become greater than his nature will allow.
Mary Shelley1797–1851Frankenstein (1818), Chapter IVIn context
- Knowledge
Do you not think that there are things which you cannot understand, and yet which are; that some people see things that others cannot?
Bram Stoker1847–1912Dracula (1897), Chapter XIVIn context
- Knowledge
- Science
This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy, for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased.
Charles Dickens1812–1870A Christmas Carol (1843), Stave IIIIn context
- Charity
Ignorance is the parent of fear
Herman Melville1819–1891Moby-Dick (1851), Chapter IIIIn context
- Fear
- Knowledge
A whale-ship was my Yale College and my Harvard.
Herman Melville1819–1891Moby-Dick (1851), Chapter XXIVIn context
- Experience
I had been to school most all the time and could spell and read and write just a little, and could say the multiplication table up to six times seven is thirty-five, and I don’t reckon I could ever get any further than that if I was to live forever. I don’t take no stock in mathematics, anyway.
Mark Twain1835–1910Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), Chapter IVIn context
- Comedy
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
Kahlil Gibran1883–1931The Prophet (1923), On PainIn context
- Knowledge
To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the other.
Alexandre Dumas1802–1870The Count of Monte Cristo (1844), Volume One, Chapter 17In context
- Knowledge
- Philosophy
But those that understood him smil’d at one another and shook their heads; but for mine own part, it was Greek to me.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Julius Caesar (1599), Act I, Scene II, spoken by CascaIn context
- Knowledge
- Talking
You taught me language, and my profit on ’t
Is, I know how to curse. The red plague rid you,
For learning me your language!
William Shakespeare1564–1616The Tempest (c. 1611), Act I, Scene II, spoken by CalibanIn context
- Talking
To be a well-favoured man is the gift of Fortune; but to write and read comes by Nature.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Much Ado About Nothing (c. 1598), Act III, Scene III, spoken by DogberryIn context
- Comedy
I’ll burn my books!
Christopher Marlowe1564–1593Doctor Faustus (c. 1592), spoken by FaustusIn context
- Knowledge
- Reading
Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight,
And burned is Apollo’s laurel-bough,
That sometime grew within this learned man.
Christopher Marlowe1564–1593Doctor Faustus (c. 1592), spoken by ChorusIn context
- Knowledge
- Life & Death
The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.
George Bernard Shaw1856–1950Pygmalion (1912), Preface to PygmalionIn context
- Talking
Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul
Plato429–349 BCThe Republic (c. 375 BC), Book IIIIn context
- Music