Quotes about knowledge
236 quotes from 164 people
Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
Sydney Smith1771–1845“Female Education” (review of Thomas Broadhurst, Advice to Young Ladies on the Improvement of Mind, 1808), in The Edinburgh Review, No. 30 (January 1810), p. 314- Sydney Smith1771–1845Elementary Sketches of Moral Philosophy (1849)
Socrates470–399 BCII: xxxi. Original Greek: ἓν μόνον ἀγαθὸν εἶναι, τὴν ἐπιστήμην, καὶ ἓν μόνον κακόν, τὴν ἀμαθίανHe knows nothing, and thinks that he knows; I neither know nor think that I know.
Thomas Sowellborn 1930Knowledge and Decisions (1980; 1996), Ch. 1 : The Role of KnowledgeEverybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
Gertrude Stein1874–1946Reflections on the Atom Bomb (1946)
John Steinbeck1902–1968The Winter of Our Discontent (1961), Part One, Ch. III
Robert Louis Stevenson1850–1894Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886), Remarkable Incident of Dr. LanyonIn contextRemember, my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker.
Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high
Where knowledge is free
Nassim Nicholas Talebborn 1960The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (2007), p. 198
