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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
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
There is but one coward on earth, and that is the coward that dare not know.
W. E. B. Du Bois1868–1963The Study of the Negro Problems, paragraph 51, in The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, vol. XI (January 1898)
- Courage
- Knowledge
Either the United States will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.
W. E. B. Du Bois1868–1963Niagara Movement, “Address to the Country”, Harpers Ferry (19 August 1906)
- America
Herein lies the tragedy of the age: not that men are poor, — all men know something of poverty; not that men are wicked, — who is good? not that men are ignorant, — what is Truth? Nay, but that men know so little of men.
W. E. B. Du Bois1868–1963The Souls of Black Folk (1903), Ch. XII: Of Alexander CrummellIn context
- Knowledge
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
Alexandre Dumas1802–1870
- Children
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
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Will Durant1885–1981
The real world is muddy and messy and full of things that we do not yet understand.
Freeman Dyson1923–2020“Heretical Thoughts about Science and Society”, in Edge (8 August 2007)
- Knowledge
- Science
We don’t know a millionth of one percent about anything.
Thomas Edison1847–1931
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Albert Einstein1879–1955
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
Albert Einstein1879–1955
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
Albert Einstein1879–1955Essay to Leo Baeck (1953), Ideas and Opinions
- Knowledge
- Truth & Lies