Quotes about Knowledge

Only a fool tries to outsmart smart people, and anyone that tries to fool fools is himself already one.

I'd have to listen to somebody - artist or shoe clerk. And the artist is more entertaining because he knows less about what he is trying to do.

I realised; no: knew; it was obvious; Boon himself admitted it in so many words)

His mind was crowded with memories; memories of the knowledge that had come to them when they closed in on the struggling pig, knowledge that they had outwitted a living thing, imposed their will upon it, taken away its life like a long satisfying drink.

I'm against the picture of the artist as a starry-eyed visionary not really in control or knowing what he does. I'd almost prefer the word 'craftsman'. He's like one of those old-fashioned ship builders who conceived the build of the boat in their mind and after that touched every single piece that went into the boat.

If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.

Our science is a drop, our ignorance a sea.

Common sense is BETTER for one sphere of life, science for another, philosophic criticism for a third; but whether either be TRUER absolutely, Heaven only knows.

Rather do I fear to lose truth by this pretension to possess it already wholly.

It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.

We are as much as we see. Faith is sight and knowledge. The hands only serve the eyes.