Quotes about knowledge
236 quotes from 164 people
Ray Bradbury1920–2012“All flesh is one: what matter scores?” in When Elephants Last In The Dooryard Bloomed: Celebrations For Almost Any Day In The Year (1973)Knowledge by suffering entereth,
And life is perfected by death.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning1806–1861Poems (1844)
Robert Browning1812–1889Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Cleon.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton1803–1873Zanoni (1842), Book IV, Chapter IVHow shall the Shown pretend to ken aught of the Showman or the Show?
Richard Francis Burton1821–1890The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî (1870)
Albert Camus1913–1960The Myth of Sisyphus (1942), “An Absurd Reasoning”That there should one Man die ignorant who had capacity for Knowledge, this I call a tragedy.
Thomas Carlyle1795–1881Sartor Resartus (1833–1834), Bk. III, ch. 4.Love is ever the beginning of Knowledge as fire is of light.
Thomas Carlyle1795–1881Critical and Miscellaneous Essays (1827–1855)- Thomas Carlyle1795–1881Critical and Miscellaneous Essays (1827–1855), Article on Biography.
- Thomas Carlyle1795–1881Carlyle, Essays, On History. Quote reported in Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 419-23.
Rachel Carson1907–1964Silent Spring (1962), Chapter 2, Page 13Nothing in this world is a gift. Whatever has to be learned must be learned the hard way.
CCCarlos Castaneda1925–1998The Wheel of Time: Shamans of Ancient Mexico, Their Thoughts About Life, Death and the Universe (1998), “Quotations from The Teachings of Don Juan” (Chapter 4)- CCCarlos Castaneda1925–1998The Wheel of Time: Shamans of Ancient Mexico, Their Thoughts About Life, Death and the Universe (1998), “Quotations from The Teachings of Don Juan” (Chapter 4)
Charlie Chaplin1889–1977The Great Dictator (1940), the barber’s closing speech