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Then felt I like some watcher of the skies
When a new planet swims into his ken;
Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes
He star’d at the Pacific⁠—and all his men
Look’d at each other with a wild surmise⁠—
Silent, upon a peak in Darien.
John Keats1795–1821On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer (1816)In context
- Knowledge
- Reading
Let Observation with extensive View,
Survey Mankind, from China to Peru
Samuel Johnson1709–1784The Vanity of Human Wishes (1749)In context
- Knowledge
The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.
Arthur Conan Doyle1859–1930The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902), Chapter 3In context
- Knowledge
- Thinking
I’ve studied now Philosophy
And Jurisprudence, Medicine,⁠—
And even, alas! Theology,⁠—
From end to end, with labor keen;
And here, poor fool! with all my lore
I stand, no wiser than before:
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe1749–1832Faust (1808), Scene I, spoken by FaustIn context
- Knowledge
- Wisdom
For just where fails the comprehension,
A word steps promptly in as deputy.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe1749–1832Faust (1808), Scene IV, spoken by MephistophelesIn context
- Knowledge
- Talking
If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.
Sun Tzu544–496 BCThe Art of War (5th century BC), Chapter IIIIn context
Remember, my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker.
Bram Stoker1847–1912Dracula (1897), Chapter XIn context
- Knowledge
It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it
Robert Louis Stevenson1850–1894Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886), Remarkable Incident of Dr. LanyonIn context
- Knowledge
There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better for worse as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882Self-Reliance (1841)In context
- Envy
A little Learning is a dang’rous thing;
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring:
There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,
And drinking largely sobers us again.
Alexander Pope1688–1744An Essay on Criticism (1711)In context
- Knowledge
No profit grows where is no pleasure ta’en;
In brief, sir, study what you most affect.
William Shakespeare1564–1616The Taming of the Shrew (c. 1591), Act I, Scene I, spoken by TranioIn context
- Happiness
In nature’s infinite book of secrecy
A little I can read.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Antony and Cleopatra (c. 1606), Act I, Scene II, spoken by SoothsayerIn context
- Knowledge
- Nature
His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge.
Arthur Conan Doyle1859–1930A Study in Scarlet (1887), Part I, Chapter IIIn context
- Knowledge
You say that we go round the sun. If we went round the moon it would not make a pennyworth of difference to me or to my work.
Arthur Conan Doyle1859–1930A Study in Scarlet (1887), Part I, Chapter IIIn context
- Knowledge
- Science
A man should keep his little brain-attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.
Arthur Conan Doyle1859–1930The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1891–1892), The Five Orange PipsIn context
- Knowledge