Posted by: berrygool | May 13, 2008

Famous Quotations about Knowledge


All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.  ~Maurice Maeterlinck


Knowledge is the true organ of sight, not the eyes.  ~Panchatantra

We are here and now.  Further than that, all knowledge is moonshine.  ~H.L. Mencken

If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions.  ~Susanne K. Langer

To be master of any branch of knowledge, you must master those which lie next to it; and thus to know anything you must know all.  ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Oftentimes the supposed increasers of knowledge have only given a new name, and a worse, to what every body knew before.  ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827

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