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My name is Sherlock Holmes. It is my business to know what other people don’t know.
Arthur Conan Doyle1859–1930The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1891–1892), The Adventure of the Blue CarbuncleIn context
- Knowledge
- Work
All men, however highly educated, retain some superstitious inklings.
H. G. Wells1866–1946The Invisible Man (1897), Chapter XVIIIn context
- Thinking
Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To come with a well-informed mind is to come with an inability of administering to the vanity of others, which a sensible person would always wish to avoid.
Jane Austen1775–1817Northanger Abbey (1817), Chapter 14In context
- Intelligence
- 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
In arguing too, the parson owned his skill,
For e’en tho’ vanquished, he could argue still;
While words of learned length, and thundering sound,
Amazed the gazing rustics ranged around;
And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew,
That one small head could carry all he knew.
Oliver Goldsmith1728–1774The Deserted Village (1770), The Deserted VillageIn context
- Debate
- Knowledge
What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow
Out of this stony rubbish? Son of man,
You cannot say, or guess, for you know only
A heap of broken images, where the sun beats,
And the dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no relief,
And the dry stone no sound of water.
T. S. Eliot1888–1965The Waste Land (1922), IIn context
- Knowledge
How can any man, whose eyes
Are wholesome, seek to rear his children wise
Beyond men’s wont? Much helplessness in arts
Of common life, and in their townsmen’s hearts
Envy deep-set … so much their learning brings!
Come unto fools with knowledge of new things,
They deem it vanity, not knowledge.
Euripides481–407 BCMedea (431 BC), Part 1, spoken by MedeaIn context
And gladly would he learn, and gladly teach.
Geoffrey Chaucer1343–1400The Canterbury Tales (c. 1387–1400), The General PrologueIn context
- Knowledge
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
The Bible (King James Version)Proverbs 1:7 (KJV)In context
Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
The Bible (King James Version)Proverbs 22:6 (KJV)In context
- Children
For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
The Bible (King James Version)Ecclesiastes 1:18 (KJV)In context
- Knowledge
- Wisdom
For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.
The Bible (King James Version)1 Corinthians 13:12 (KJV)In context
- Faith
- Knowledge