Imaginary Discussion Thread on: Knowledge

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

He that increases knowledge increases sorrow.
- Book of Ecclesiastes

A little learning is a dangerous thing;
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring:
There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,
And drinking largely sobers us again.
-Alexander Pope

If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?
- Thomas Henry Huxley

An extensive knowledge is needful to thinking people – it takes away the heat and fever; and helps, by widening speculation, to ease the burden of the mystery.
- John Keats

Man is not weak, knowledge is more than equivalent to force. The master of mechanics laughs at strength.
- Samuel Johnson

It is only theory that makes men completely incautious.
- Bertrand Russell

To be proud of knowledge is to be blind with light.
- Benjamin Franklin

Learning, the destroyer of arrogance, begets arrogance in fools; even as light, that illuminates the eye, makes owls blind.
- Panchatantra

The utmost abstractions are the true weapons with which to control our thought of concrete fact.
- Alfred North Whitehead

The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds.
- John F. Kennedy

In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.
- Henry Miller

That knowledge that stops at what it does not know, is the highest knowledge.
- Chuang Tzu

The more I read, the more I mediate, and the more I acquire, the more I am enabled to affirm that I know nothing.
- Voltaire

So much has already been written about everything that you can’t find out anything about it.
- James Thurber

Knowledge is a recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.
- George Santayana

The first and wisest of them all professed
To know this only, that he nothing knew.
- Milton

Knowledge is always accompanied with accessories of emotion and purpose.
- Alfred North Whitehead

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
- Oscar Wilde

The things we know best are the things we haven’t been taught.
- Vauvenargues

To know is not to prove, nor to explain. It is to accede to vision.
- Saint Exupery

The Eye altering alters all.

- William Blake