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)Blessed is he who has been able to win knowledge of the causes of things.
Virgil70–19 BCGeorgics (29 BC), Book II, line 490 (tr. H. Rushton Fairclough); homage to Lucretius.
Arthur Miller1915–2005Commenting on After the Fall (1964) in The Saturday Evening Post (February 1, 1964)
Bertrand Russell1872–1970In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays (1935), Ch. 2: ‘Useless’ Knowledge
Zora Neale Hurston1891–1960Dust Tracks on a Road (1942), Ch. 10: Research, p. 143Love, work and knowledge are the well-springs of our life. They should also govern it.
Wilhelm Reich1897–1957His motto, in the preamble of Charakteranalyse (1933)
Benjamin Disraeli1804–1881Speech in the House of Commons (14 May 1866)
William Hazlitt1778–1830Men and Manners: Sketches and Essays (1852), “On Prejudice”
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882Society and Solitude (1870), Old Age
Euripides481–407 BCFrg. 205.3 (Bartlett’s, 1892); cf. Davenant
Edward Bulwer-Lytton1803–1873Zanoni (1842), Book IV, Chapter IV
Thomas Carlyle1795–1881Critical and Miscellaneous Essays (1827–1855), Article on Biography.
George Eliot1819–1880Daniel Deronda (1876)
Jerome345–420Commentary on Isaiah, Prologue
Ludwig Wittgenstein1889–1951Culture and Value (1980), p. 64e