Knowledge – Epic Quotes

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Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.

One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.

The analysis of concepts is for the understanding nothing more than what the magnifying glass is for sight.

He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.

We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.

I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.