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Quotes about Knowledge

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Artemus Ward
(1834 - 1867)
It ain't so much the things we don't know that get us into trouble, it's the things we do know that just ain't so.
Bertrand Russell
(1872 - 1970)
There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.
Dr. Samuel Johnson
(1707 - 1784)
If it rained knowledge, I'd hold out my hand; but I would not give myself the trouble to go in quest of it.
H. L. Mencken
(1880 - 1956)
We are here and it is now. Further than that all human knowledge is moonshine.
J. D. BernalThe full area of ignorance is not mapped: we are at present only exploring its frings.
Mark Twain
(1835 - 1910)
I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know.
Norman FordNever try to tell everything you know. It may take too short a time.
Quentin CrispTo know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
Ralph W. Sockman
(1889 - 1970)
The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.
Richard FeynmanI was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.
T.S. EliotWhere is the knowledge that is lost in information? Where is the wisdom that is lost in knowledge?
Thomas A. Edison
(1847 - 1931)
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
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