Knowledge Quotes - Page 9

Socrates: This man, on one hand, believes that he knows something, while not knowing [anything]. On the other hand, I – equally ignorant – do not believe [that I know anything].

The sun will rise tomorrow morning; I know that perfectly well. But figuring out how I could know it is, as Hume pointed out, a bit of a puzzle.

The world, viewed philosophically, remains a series of slave camps, where citizens – tax livestock – labor under the chains of illusion in the service of their masters.

What is knowledge but a lucid enunciation of ignorance of yesterday. If there is no darkness to dispel, there can be no light.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

Hold fast to dreams,
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird,
That cannot fly.

Any fool can know. The point is to understand.

Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else ... Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

It takes a very long time to become young.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.

To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.

You can never know everything. Part of what you know is always wrong. Perhaps the most important part. A portion of wisdom lies in knowing that. A portion of knowledge lies in going on anyway.

There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.

To acquire knowledge, one must study;
but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

Knowledge is marvelous, but wisdom is even better.

I don't fancy colors of the face, I'm always attracted to colors of the brain.

A visitor is a friend, he brings news, good or bad, which is bread to the hungry minds in lonely places. A real friend who comes to the house is a heavenly messenger, who brings the panis angelorum.