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Knowledge Quotes (page 38)

James Rollins quote: "Biblical references about knowledge and good and evil often..."
Biblical references about knowledge and good and evil often get tangled up. James Rollins
She found a deep sense of fitness in the fact that here, among people, they should be strangers; strangers and enemies. She thought, these people can think of many things he and I are to each other--except what we are. It made the moments she remembered greater, the moments not touched by the sight of others, by the words of others, not even by their knowledge. Ayn Rand
...like many another self-educated man, he attached an exaggerated importance to the knowledge he had so painfully acquired and could not resist the temptation to parade it,... W. Somerset Maugham
Socrates quote: "There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance."
There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance. Socrates
She looked at nobody, but just before she went out, she raised her eyes and took a speedy glance at me. There was something in that looks that startled me - though it was difficult to describe why. There was malice in it, and a curious intimate knowledge. I felt that, without effort, and almost without curiosity, she had known exactly what thoughts were in my mind. Agatha Christie
It was not a question of knowledge...but of alertness, a fastidious transcription of what could be thought about something, once it swam into the stream of attention. Susan Sontag
At times she's so basic, at others so wise it frightens me that I got so far in this world without the benefit of such knowledge. Diane Keaton
I had hoped, at my departure, I would feel sure and knowledgeable about everything that lay ahead -- after all, I had been "analyzed." Instead, all I could see were question marks. Sylvia Plath
I never heard that it had been anybody’s business to find out what his natural bent was, or where his failings lay, or to adapt any kind of knowledge to him. He had been adapted to the verses and had learnt the art of making them to such perfection. I did doubt whether Richard would not have profited by some one studying him a little, instead of his studying them quite so much. Charles Dickens
Meister Eckhart quote: "[W]e must come into a transformed knowing, an unknowing which..."
[W]e must come into a transformed knowing, an unknowing which comes not from ignorance but from knowledge. Meister Eckhart
...but those as knows the least have a habit of thinkin' they know all there is to know, while them as knows the most admits what a turr'ble big world this is. It's the knowing ones that realize one lifetime ain't long enough to git more'n a few dips o' the oars of knowledge. L. Frank Baum
He values my understanding and talents more highly than my heart, but I am proud of the latter only. It is the sole source of everything of our strength, happiness, and misery. All the knowledge I possess every one else can acquire, but my heart is exclusively my own. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
But once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle you are equipped with the basic means of salvation. Once you know this is true, that the heart of man, his body and his brain, are forged in a white-hot furnace for the purpose of conflict (the struggle of creation) and that with the conflict removed, the man is a sword cutting daisies, that not privation but luxury is the wolf at the door and that the fangs of this wolf are all the little vanities and laxities that Success... Tennessee Williams
William Butler Yeats quote: "The Irishman sustains himself during brief periods of joy by..."
The Irishman sustains himself during brief periods of joy by the knowledge that tragedy is just around the corner. William Butler Yeats
Bertrand Russell quote: "I do not think there can be any defense for the view that..."
I do not think there can be any defense for the view that knowledge is ever undesirable. Bertrand Russell

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