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All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions.
Leonardo da Vinci1452–1519The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883)
Share your knowledge. It’s a way to achieve immortality.
Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lamaborn 1935
I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Isaac Newton1643–1727Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Discoveries of Sir Isaac Newton (1855) by Sir David Brewster (Volume II. Ch. 27)
Knowledge that is paid for will be longer remembered.
NBNachman of Bratslav
New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.
Kurt Vonnegut1922–2007Cat’s Cradle (1963), Chapter 18
To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.
George Orwell1903–1950“In Front of Your Nose,” Tribune (22 March 1946)
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
Carl Jung1875–1961
- Failure
Doing what little one can to increase the general stock of knowledge is as respectable an object of life, as one can in any likelihood pursue.
Charles Darwin1809–1882
The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.
Elbert Hubbard1856–1915
- Education
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.
Charles Darwin1809–1882The Descent of Man (1871) volume I, “Introduction”, p. 3
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
- Truth & Lies
The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
Bertrand Russell1872–1970What I Believe (1925)
- Life & Death
- Love
Erudition, n. Dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.
Ambrose Bierce1842–1914The Devil’s Dictionary (1911)
That which is desirable on its own account and for the sake of knowing it is more of the nature of wisdom than that which is desirable on account of its results.
Aristotle384–322 BCMetaphysics, 982a16, Complete Works, vol. 2, p. 1554
- Wisdom
Knowledge, that tendeth but to satisfaction, is but as a courtesan, which is for pleasure, and not for fruit or generation.
Francis Bacon1561–1626Valerius Terminus: Of the Interpretation of Nature (ca. 1603), in Works, Vol. 1, p. 83; The Works of Francis Bacon (1819), Vol. 2, p. 133