Quotes about knowledge
236 quotes from 164 people
Salman Rushdieborn 1947Salman Rushdie — Talking with David Frost (1993)The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
Bertrand Russell1872–1970What I Believe (1925)- Bertrand Russell1872–1970In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays (1935), Ch. 2: ‘Useless’ Knowledge
Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
Bertrand Russell1872–1970A History of Western Philosophy (1945)Is there any knowledge in the world which is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?
Bertrand Russell1872–1970The Problems of Philosophy (1912)- Bertrand Russell1872–1970An Outline of Philosophy Ch.15 The Nature of our Knowledge of Physics (1927)
- Bertrand Russell1872–1970Why I Am Not a Christian (1927)
It does no harm to the romance of the sunset to know a little bit about it.
Carl Sagan1934–1996Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (1994), p. 159
George Santayana1863–1952The Genteel Tradition in American Philosophy (1911), p. 58- George Santayana1863–1952The Sense of Beauty (1896), Pt. III, Form; § 30: “The average modified in the direction of pleasure.”, p. 125
The condition of mankind is to be weary of what we do know, and afraid of what we do not.
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax1633–1695Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), “Moral Thoughts and Reflections”The highest knowledge is to know that we are surrounded by mystery.
Albert Schweitzer1875–1965The Spiritual Life (1947), p. 102It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing.
Seneca the Younger5 BC–AD 65Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter LXXXVIII: On liberal and vocational studies, Line 45.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Antony and Cleopatra (c. 1606), Act I, Scene II, spoken by SoothsayerIn context