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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
- 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
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
- Work
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
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
- Education
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
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
- Envy
- Intelligence
And gladly would he learn, and gladly teach.
Geoffrey Chaucer1343–1400The Canterbury Tales (c. 1387–1400), The General PrologueIn context
- Education
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
- God
- Wisdom
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
- 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