knowledge

After such knowledge, what forgiveness? Think now Eliot History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors And issues, deceives with whispering ambitions, Guides us by vanities.

—Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)

Of these two literatures [French and German], as of the intellect of Europe in general, the main effort, for now many years, has beena critical effort; the endeavours, in all branches of knowledgeötheology, philosophy, history, art, scienceötoseethe object as initself it really is.

—Arnold, Matthew

For all knowledge and wonder (which is the seed of knowledge) is an impression of pleasure in itself.

—Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans

What we should do, I suggest, is to give up the idea of ultimate sources of knowledge, and admit that all knowledge is human; that it is mixed with our errors, our prejudices, our dreams, and our hopes; that all we can doistogrope for truth even though it be beyond our reach.

—Popper, Sir Karl Raimund

I have taken all knowledge to be my province.

—Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans

And if there be any addition to knowledge, it is rather a new knowledge than a greater knowledge; rather a singularity in a desire of proposing something that was not knownat all beforethananimproving, anadvancing, a multiplying of former inceptions; and by that means, no knowledge comes to be perfect.

—Donne,John

Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.

—Wesley,John

If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it's because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that's the most revolutionary insight of all.

—Jong, Erica ne¤  e Mann

Danser, c'est de¤  couvrir et recre¤  er, surtout lorsque la danse est danse d'amour. C'est, en tout cas, le meilleur mode de connaissance. To dance is to discover and to recreate, above all when the dance is the dance of love. It is the best mode of knowledge.

—Senghor, Le¤  opold Se¤  dar

Amer savoir, celui qu'on tire du voyage! Bitter is the knowledge gained in travelling.

—Baudelaire, Charles

   I am inclined tothink that the fargreater part, if not all, of those difficulties which have hitherto amused philosophers, and blocked up the way to knowledge, are entirely owing to ourselvesöthat we have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see.

—Berkeley, George

Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge? Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me.Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding.

—Bible (Old Testament)

Can knowledge have no bound, but must advance So far, to make us wish for ignorance?

—Denham, SirJohn

Asthe Spanishproverbsays,'He, whowould bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry the wealth of the Indies with him.' So it is in travelling; a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.

—Johnson, Samuel known as Dr Johnson

The chapter of knowledge is very short, but the chapter of accidents is a very long one.

—Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of

Nature that framed us of four elements, Warring within our breasts for regiment, Doth teach us all to have aspiring minds: Our souls, whose faculties can comprehend The wondrous architecture of the world, And measure every wandering planet's course, Still climbing after knowledge infinite, And always moving as the restless spheres, Wills us to wear ourselves, and never rest, Until we reach the ripest fruit of all, That perfect bliss and sole felicity, The sweet fruition of an earthly crown.

—Marlowe, Christopher

This is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered in the White Houseöwith the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.

—Kennedy,John F(itzgerald)

All craftsmen share a knowledge. They have held Reality down fluttering to a bench.

—Sackville-West,Vita (Victoria Mary)

Ich musste also das Wissen aufheben, um zum Glauben Platz zu bekommen. I have therefore found it necessary to deny knowledge, in order to make room for faith.

—Kant, Immanuel

If you dissemble sometimes your knowledge of that you are thought to know, you shall be thought, another time, to know that you know not.

—Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans

Once regarded as the herald of enlightenment in all spheres of knowledge, science is now increasingly seen as a strictly instrumental system of control. Its use as a system of manipulation and its role in restricting human freedomnow parallel in everydetail itsuseas a means of natural manipulation.

—Bookchin, Murray pseudonym of  Lewis Herber

It appears, then, that ethics, as a branch of knowledge, is nothing more than a department of psychologyand sociology.

—Ayer, SirAlfred Jules

Madam, a circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge!† Depend upon it, Mrs Malaprop, that they who are so fond of handling the leaves, will long for the fruit at last.

—Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

If we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself.

—Plato

'Tis certain we have but very imperfect accounts of the manners and religion of these people; this part of the world being seldomvisited,but bymerchants, whomind little but their own affairs; or travellers, who make too short a stay to be able to report anything exactly of their own knowledge.

—Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley ne¤  e Pierrepoint

The assaying of tea is an art and not a science. It is the man, and not his instruments, which is the most important.There can be no substitute for myexperience and intuited knowledge.

—Mo,Timothy

   Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.

—Hippocrates   c.460

Dass nicht alles auf einmal da ist, bleibt als Bedingung des Lebens und der Erz a« hlung zu achten, und man wird sich doch wohl gegen die gottgegebenen Formen menschlicher Erkenntnis nich auflehnen wollen. Let usnot forgetthe conditionof lifeasnarration: that we can never see the whole picture at onceöunless we propose to throw overboard all the God-conditioned forms of human knowledge.

—Mann,Thomas

I had written him a letter which I had, for want of better Knowledge, sent to where I met him, down the Lachlan, years ago. He was shearing when I knew him, so I sent the letter to him, Just 'on spec', addressed as follows: 'Clancy, of the Overflow'. And an answer came directed in a writing unexpected, (And I think the same was written with a thumbnail dipped in tar) 'Twas his shearing mate who wrote it, and verbatim I will quote it: 'Clancy's gone to Queensland droving, and we don't know where he are.'

—Paterson, Banjo (Andrew Barton)

For I say, this is death and the sole death, When a man's loss comes to him from his gain, Darkness from light, from knowledge ignorance, And lack of love from love made manifest.

—Browning, Robert

The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.

—Freud, Sigmund

Science is the only truth and it is the great lie. It knows nothing, and people think it knows everything. It is misrepresented. People think that science is electricity, automobilism, and dirigible balloons. It is something very different. It is life devouring itself. It is the sensibility transformed into intelligence. It is the need to know stifling the need to live. It is the genius of knowledge vivisecting the vital genius.

—Gourmont, Re¤  my de

Qui Deus a dune¤   esci e« nce e de parler bone eloquence, ne s'en deit taisir ne celer, ainz se deit voluntiers mustrer. Whoever God has given knowledge and eloquence in speaking, should not be silent or secretive, but should willingly show it.

—Maria¤ t egui,Jose¤   Carlos

Summum Mentis bonum est Dei cognitio, et summa Mentis virtus Deum cognoscere. The greatest good of the mind is the knowledge of God, and the greatest virtue of the mind is to know God.

—Spinoza, Baruch also known as Benedict de Spinoza

Whatever Nature has instore for mankind, unpleasant as it may be, men must accept, for ignoranceisnever better than knowledge.

—Fermi, Enrico

How imperfect is all our knowledge!

—Donne,John

I reflected how easy it is for a man to reduce women of a certain age to imbecility. All he has to do isgive an impersonation of desire, or better still, of secret knowledge, for a woman to feel herself a source of power.

—Brookner, Anita

The Englishwoman's clothes, too, have improved out of all knowledge†no longer are our hats, as inVictorian days, a kind of Pageant of Empire, whereon the products of all the colonies battle for precedence.

—Sitwell, Dame Edith Louisa

Dewey has no inner reserve of knowledge on which to draw for his thinking. A man couldn't wear a moustache like that without having it affect his mind.

—Hoover, Herbert Clark

In vita itaque apprime utile est, intellectum seu Rationem, quantum possumus, perficere, et in hoc uno summa hominis felicitas seu beatitudo consistit; quippe beatitudo nihil aliud est, quam ipsa animi acquiescentia quae ex Dei intuitiva cognitione oritur. It is therefore extrememly useful in life to perfect as much as we can the intellect or reason, and of this alone doesthegreatest happiness or blessedness of man exist: for blessedness is nothing else than satisfaction of mind which arises from the intuitive knowledge of God.

—Spinoza, Baruch also known as Benedict de Spinoza

It is evidently known, beyond contradiction, that New Orleans is the cradle of jazz, and I, myself, happened to bethe creator intheyear1902† Jazz music isa style, not compositions; any kind of music may be played in jazz, if one has the knowledge.

—Morton,Jelly Roll (Ferdinand)

Woeuntoyou, lawyers! for yehavetakenaway thekeyof knowledge.

—Bible (NewTestament)

Knowledge advances by steps, and not by leaps.

—1st Baron

I do not think it possible to get anywhere if we start from scepticism.We must start from a broad acceptance of whatever seems to be knowledge and is not rejected for some specific reason.

—Russell, Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl

The peace of God, which passeth all understanding, keepyourheartsandmindsintheknowledgeand love of God, and of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord: And the blessing of God Almighty, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, be amongst you and remain with you always. Amen.

—Book of Common Prayer

Since therefore the knowledge and survey of vice is in this world so necessary to the constituting of human virtue, and the scanning of error to the confirmation of truth, how can we more safely, and with less danger, scout intotheregions of sinand falsity thanby reading all manner of tractates and hearing all manner of reason? And this is the benefit which may be had of books promiscuously read.

—Milton,John

Talk about those subjects you have had long in your mind, and listen to what others say about subjects you have studied but recently. Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.

—Holmes, Oliver Wendell

The very power of science to hold knowledge as collective knowledge is founded upon a degree and a quality of trust which are arguably unparalleled elsewhere in our culture† Scientists know so much about the natural world by knowing so much about whom they can trust.

—Shapin, Steven

The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mystical. It is the power of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, which ourdull faculties can comprehend only in their most primitive formsöthis knowledge, this feeling, isatthe centerof true religiousness.In thissense, and in this sense only, I belong to the rank of devoutly religious men.

—Einstein, Albert

I am imbued with two deep impressions; the first, that science knows no country; the second, which seems to contradict the first, although it is really a direct consequence of it†that science is the highest personification of the nation. Science knows no country because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.

—Pasteur, Louis

   For this, indeed, isthetruesource ofour ignoranceöthe fact that our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.

—Popper, Sir Karl Raimund

The real accomplishment of modern science and technology consists in taking ordinary men, informing them narrowlyand deeply and then, through appropriate organization, arranging to have their knowledge combined with that of other specialized but equally ordinary men. This dispenses with the need for genius.Theresulting performance, though lessinspiring, is far more predictable.

—Galbraith,John Kenneth

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers, and I linger on the shore, And the individual withers, and the world is more and more.

—Tennyson

There is, it seems to us, At best, only a limited value In the knowledge derived from experience.

—Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)

But knowledge to their eyes her ample page Rich with the spoils of time did ne'er unroll; Chill Penury repressed their noble rage, And froze the genial current of the soul.

—Gray,Thomas

Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.

—Cowper,William

Knowledge for the sake of understanding, not merely to prevail, that isthe essence of ourbeing.None candefine its limits, or set its ultimate boundaries.

—Bush,Vannevar

It came by a lightning flash like knowledge from the gods.

—Wilson, Edward O(sborne)

For inmuchwisdomismuchgrief: and hethat increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.

—Bible (Old Testament)

   All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded, wisdom in discourse with her Loses discount'nanced, and like folly shows.

—Milton,John

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

—cummings, e e pen name of  Edward Estlin Cummings

Knowledge is a sacred cow, and my problem will be how we can milk her while keeping clear of her horns.

—Szent-Gyo«  rgyi, Albert von Nagyrapolt

But knowledge is as food, and needs no less Her temperance over appetite, to know In measure what the mind may well contain, Oppresses else with surfeit, and soon turns Wisdom to folly, as nourishment to wind.

—Milton,John

Grace isgiven of God, but knowledge is bought in the market.

—Clough, Arthur Hugh

   Knowledge is oftwo kinds.We knowa subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

—Johnson, Samuel known as Dr Johnson

All our knowledge is, ourselves to know.

—Pope, Alexander

Knowledge is power

—Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans

Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much; Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.

—Cowper,William

   Knowledge does not keep any better than fish.

—Whitehead, Alfred North

Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

—Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)

   Not Eve, whose fault was only too much love, Which made her give this present to her dear, That what she tasted he likewise might prove, Whereby his knowledge might become more clear; He never sought her weakness to reprove With those sharp words which he of God did hear; Yet men will boast of knowledge, which he took From Eve's fair hand, as from a learned book.

—Lanyer, Aemilia

   Loving in truth, and vain in verse my love to show, That she (dear she) mighttake some pleasure of my pain, Pleasure might cause her read, reading might make her know; Knowledge might pity win, and pity grace obtain.

—Shute, Nevil originally Nevil Shute Norway

The end of our foundation is the knowledge of causes, and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of human Empire, to the effecting of all things possible.

—Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans

The end of our foundation is the knowledge of causes, and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of human Empire, to the effecting of all things possible.

—Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans

It was from out the rind of one apple tasted, that the knowledge of good and evil, as two twins cleaving together, leaped forth into the world.

—Milton,John

As therefore the state of man now is, what wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear, without the knowledge of good and evil?

—Milton,John

Here, of all her cities, throbbed the true lifeöthe true power and spirit of America; gigantic, crude with the crudityof youth, disdaining rivalry; saneand healthyand vigorous; brutal in its ambition, arrogant in the new- found knowledge of its giant strength, prodigal of its wealth, infinite in its desires.

—Norris, Frank Benjamin Franklin

It wasn't exactly carelessness; her knowledge of literate English contained such vast areas of desert that she took it for granted that half of what she wrote would be meaningless to her.

—Chandler, Raymond

The knowledge of man is as the waters, some descending from above, and some springing from beneath; the one informed by the light of nature, the other inspired by divine revelation.

—Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans

The study of crime begins with the knowledge of oneself. All that you despise, all that you loathe, all that you reject, all that you condemn and seek to convert by punishment springs from you.

—Miller, Henry Valentine

With a thorough knowledge of the Bible, Shakespeare and Wisden, you cannot go far wrong.

—Waugh, Evelyn Arthur StJohn

He thought about himself, and the whole earth, Of man the wonderful, and of the stars, And how the deuce they ever could have birth; And then he thought of earthquakes, and of wars, How many miles the moon might have in girth, Of air-balloons, and of the many bars To perfect knowledge of the boundless skies; And then he thought of Donna Julia's eyes.

—Rochdale

There is more knowledge of the heart in one letter of Richardson's, than in all TomJones.

—Johnson, Samuel known as Dr Johnson

I ask you to look both ways.For the road to a knowledge of the stars leads through the atom; and important knowledge of the atom has been reached through the stars.

—Eddington, SirArthur Stanley

   If you wanttoknow thetaste of a pear, you musttastethe pear by eating it for yourself. If you want to know the theoryand methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

—Mao Zedong or MaoTse-tung

For, strictly considered, what is all knowledge too but recorded experience, and a product of history; of which, therefore, reasoning and belief, no less than action and passion are essential materials?

—Carlyle,Thomas

   And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as thestarsforeverand ever.Butthou,ODaniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.

—Bible (Old Testament)

   Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and havenotcharity,Iam becomeassounding brass, ora tinkling cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. And though I bestow all mygoodstofeed thepoor, and though Igivemy body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not herown, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away. For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. 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. And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.

—Bible (NewTestament)

The very knowledge that he lived in vain, That all was over on this side the tomb, Had made Despair a smilingness assume.

—Rochdale

Perhapsthemost sublimeinsights oftheJewishprophets and the Christian gospel is the knowledge that since perfection is love, the apprehension of perfection is at once the means of seeing one's imperfections and the consoling assurance of grace which makes this realization bearable. This ultimate paradox of high religion is not an invention of theologians or priests. It is constantly validated by the most searching experiences of life.

—Niebuhr, Reinhold

No writer, sacred or profane, ever uses the words 'he'or 'him'of the soul. It is always 'she'or 'her'; so universal is theintuitive knowledgethatthesoul, with regard to God who is her life, is feminine.

—Patmore, Coventry Kersey Dighton

The knowledge that you can have is inexhaustible, and what is inexhaustible is benevolent. The knowledge that you cannot have is of the riddles of birth and death, of our future destinyand the purposes of God. Here there is no knowledge, but illusions that restrict freedom and limit hope. Accept the mystery behind knowledge: It is not darkness but shadow.

—Frye, Northrop

The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.

—Day, Doris originally Doris Kappelhoff

Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.

—Pascal, Blaise

Language and knowledge are indissolubly connected; theyare interdependent.Good work in language presupposes and depends on a real knowledge of things.

—Sullivan, Anne

   The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.

—MacInnis,Joseph

Let knowledge grow from more to more, But more of reverence in us dwell; That mind and soul, according well, May make one music as before.

—Tennyson

It is ambition enough to be employed as an under- labourer in clearing ground a little, and removing some of the rubbish that lies in the way to knowledge. 514

—Locke,John

The pretensions of final truth are always partlyan effort to obscure a darkly felt consciousness of the limits of human knowledge.

—Niebuhr, Reinhold

That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man;That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.

—Bible (NewTestament)

Let us then suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas; how comes it to be furnished? Whence comes it by that vast store which the busyand boundless fancy of man has painted on it with an almost endless variety? Whence has it all the materials of reason and knowledge? To this I answer, in one word, from experience.

—Locke,John

All men naturally desire knowledge.

—Aristotle

Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge.

—Bible (Old Testament)

Ich habe also demnach keine Erkenntnis von mir, wie ich bin, sondern bloÞ, wie ich mir selbst erscheine. Das Bewusstsein seiner selbst ist also noch lange nicht eine Erkenntnis seiner selbst. I have no knowledge of myself as I am but merely as I appear to myself. The consciousness of myself is thus very far from being a knowledge of the self.

—Kant, Immanuel

And she forgot the stars, the moon, and sun, And she forgot the blue above the trees, And she forgot the dells where waters run, And she forgot the chillyautumn breeze; She had no knowledge when the day was done, And the new morn she saw not: but in peace Hung over her sweet Basil evermore, And moistened it with tears unto the core.

—Keats,John

Whatsoever thy hand findethto do; do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.

—Bible (Old Testament)

Our reverence for the nobility of manhood will not be lessened by the knowledge that man is in substance and in structure, one with the brutes; for he alone possesses the marvellous endowment of intelligible and rational speech whereby†he has slowlyaccumulated and organized the experience which is almost wholly lost with the cessation of individual life in other animals; so that he now stands raised above it as on a mountain-top, far above the level of his humble fellows, and transfigured from his grosser nature by reflecting, here and there, a ray from the infinite source of truth.

—Huxley,T(homas) H(enry)

Of knowledge there is no satiety.

—Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans

Faith, n. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks, without knowledge, of things without parallel.

—Bierce, Ambrose Gwinett

There is only one good, knowledge, and only one evil, ignorance.

—Socrates

Where there is much to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, muchwriting, manyopinions; foropinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.

—Milton,John

There is at least one philosophical problem in which all thinking men are interested. It is the problem of cosmology: the problem of understanding the worldöincluding ourselves, and our knowledge, as part of the world. All science is cosmology, I believe, and for me the interest of philosophy, no less than that of science, lies solely in the contributions which it has made to it.

—Popper, Sir Karl Raimund

Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask:Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge.

—Arnold, Matthew

It isnot his possession of knowledge, of irrefutabletruth, that makes the man of science, but his persistent and recklessly critical quest for truth.

—Popper, Sir Karl Raimund

The mathematical is that evident aspect of things within which we are always already moving and according to which we experience them as things at all, and as such things. The mathematical is this fundamental position we take toward things by which we take up things as already given to us, and as they must and should be given. Therefore, the mathematical is the fundamental presupposition of the knowledge of things.

—Heidegger, Martin

Furnished as all Europe is with Academies of Science, with nice instruments and the spirit of experimentation, the progress of human knowledge will be rapid and discoveries made of which we have at present no conception. I begin to be almost sorry I was born since I cannot have the happiness of knowing what will be known a hundred years hence.

—Frank, Anne

It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

—Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Science is knowledge arranged and classified according to truth, facts, and the general laws of nature.

—Burbank, Luther

Science is organized knowledge.

—Spencer, Herbert

DefinitionöScience is systematized positive knowledge, what has been taken as such in different ages and in different places. TheoremöThe acquisition and systematization of positive knowledge are the only human activities which are truly cumulative and progressive.CorollaryöThe history of science is the only history which can illustrate the progress of mankind. In fact, progress has no definite and unquestionable meaning in other fields than the field of science.

—Sarton, George A

Scientific discoveryand scientific knowledge have been achieved only by those who have gone in pursuit of them without any practical purpose whatsoever in view.

—Planck, Max Karl Ernst

   You seek for knowledge and wisdom as I once did; and I ardently hope that the gratification of your wishes may not be a serpent to sting you, as mine has been.

—Shelley, Mary Godwin

Divorce is the sign of knowledge in our time.

—Williams,William Carlos

La me¤  decine a fait quelques petits progre'  s dans ses connaissances depuis Molie'  re, mais aucun dans son vocabulaire. Medicine has made a few, small advances in knowledge since Molie' r e, but none in its vocabulary.

—Proust, Marcel

The sociologists of knowledge have been among those raising high the banner which reads: 'We don't know if what we say is true, but it is at least significant.' The sociologists and psychologists engaged in the study of publicopinionand mass communications aremost often found in the opposed camp of the empiricists† 'We don't know that what we say is particularly significant, but it is at least true.'

—Merton, Robert King

Sorrow is knowledge: they who know the most Must mourn the deepest o'er the fatal truth, The tree of knowledge is not that of Life.

—Rochdale

O L, thou hast searched me, and known me. Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off. Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways. For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo,O L, thou knowest it altogether. Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon me. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it.

—Bible (Old Testament)

Such knowledge istoo wonderful and excellent for me: I cannot attain unto it.

—Book of Common Prayer

Concerning the gods I am not in a position to know either that they are or that they are not, or what theyare like in appearance; for there are many things that are preventing knowledge, the obscurity of the matter and the brevity of human life.

—Protagoras

Ex tertio cognitionis genere oritur necessarioAmor Dei intellectualis. From the third kind of knowledge [intuition] arises necessarily the intellectual love of God.

—Spinoza, Baruch also known as Benedict de Spinoza

Oh! it is onlya novel!†only some work in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineationof itsvarieties,theliveliesteffusions of wit and humour are conveyed to the world in the best chosen language.

—Austen,Jane

DerVerstand vermag nichts anzuschauen, und die Sinne nichts zu denken. Nur daraus, dass sie sich vereinigen, kann Erkenntnis entspringen. The understanding can intuit nothing, the senses can think nothing.Only through their union can knowledge arise.

—Kant, Immanuel

The quincunx of heaven runs low, and 'tis time to close the five parts of knowledge.

—Browne, SirThomas

Thisgrey spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.

—Tennyson

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man. Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise, and rudely great: With too much knowledge for the sceptic side, With too much weakness for the stoic's pride, He hangs between; in doubt to act or rest, In doubt to deem himself a god, or beast; In doubt his mind or body to prefer, Born but to die, and reas'ning but to err; Alike in ignorance, his reason such, Whether he thinks too little, or too much.

—Pope, Alexander

But sweeter still than this, than these, than all, Is first and passionate loveöit stands alone, Like Adam's recollection of his fall; The tree of knowledge hath been pluck'döall's known And life yields nothing further to recall Worthy of this ambrosial sin, so shown, No doubt in fable, as the unforgiven Fire which Prometheus filch'd for us from heaven.

—Rochdale

Out of the fertile ground he caused to grow All trees of noblest kind for sight, smell, taste; And all amid them stood theTree of Life, High eminent, blooming ambrosial fruit Of vegetable gold; and next to life Our death theTree of Knowledge grew fast by, Knowledge of good bought dear by knowing ill.

—Milton,John

   Books, we are told, propose to instruct or to amuse. Indeed!† The true antithesisto knowledge, in this case, is not pleasure, but power. All that is literature seeks to communicate power; all that is not literature, to communicate knowledge.

—Depp,Johnny (John Christopher)

Perhaps true knowledge only comes of death by torture in the country of the mind.

—White, Patrick Victor Martindale

There are two modes of acquiring knowledge, namely, by reasoning and experience. Reasoning draws a conclusion and makes us grant the conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, nor does it remove doubt so that the mind may rest on the intuition of truth unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience.

—Bacon, Roger known as Doctor Mirabilis

   What a misfortune it isto be bornawoman!† Why seek for knowledge, which can prove only that our wretchedness is irremediable? If a ray of light break in upon us, it is but to make darkness more visible; to show usthenew limits, the Gothic structure, theimpenetrable barriers of our prison.

—Edgeworth, Maria

Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas. Blessed ishe who hasbeenabletowinknowledge of the causes of things.

—Virgil full name Publius Vergilius Maro

The painter who draws by practiceand judgement of the eye without the use of reason is like a mirror which copies everything placed in front of it without knowledge of the same.

—Leonardo daVinci