Knowledge

(110 votes)   Man is distinguished, not only by his reason; but also by this singular passion from other animals... which is a lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of knowledge, exceeds the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.

Thomas Hobbes
1588-1679, British Philosopher

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(36 votes)   He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging. He must not be afraid to return again and again to the same matter; to scatter it as one scatters earth, to turn it over as one turns over soil. For the matter itself is only a deposit, a stratum, which yields only to the most meticulous examination what constitutes the real treasure hidden within the earth: the images, severed from all earlier associations, that stand --like precious fragments or torsos in a collector's gallery --in the prosaic rooms of our later understanding.

Walter Benjamin
1982-1940, German Critic, Philosopher

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(275 votes)   The long unmeasured pulse of time moves everything. There is nothing hidden that it cannot bring to light, nothing once known that may not become unknown.

Sophocles
BC 495-406, Greek Tragic Poet

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(226 votes)   Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

Henry David Thoreau
1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist

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(217 votes)   Many people think of knowledge as money, They would like knowledge, but do not want to face the perseverance and self-denial that goes into the acquisition of it.

John Morely

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(216 votes)   I find that a great part of the information I have, was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.

Franklin P. Adams
1881-1960, American Journalist, Humorist

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(213 votes)   The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.

Confucius
BC 551-479, Chinese Ethical Teacher, Philosopher

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(212 votes)   ''Knowledge is power.'' Rather, knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -- broad, deep knowledge -- is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to feel the great heartthrobs of humanity through the centuries; and if one does not feel in these pulsations a heavenward striving, one must indeed be deaf to the harmonies of life.

Helen Keller
1880-1968, American Blind/Deaf Author, Lecturer, Amorist

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(209 votes)   Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

Carl Jung
1875-1961, Swiss Psychiatrist

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(203 votes)   The conqueror and king in each one of us is the knower of truth. Let the knower awaken in us and drive the horses of the mind, emotions, and physical body on the pathway which that king has chosen.

George S. Arundale

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(199 votes)   The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(193 votes)   Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

Lord Alfred Tennyson
1809-1892, British Poet

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(189 votes)   Know thyself.

Socrates
BC 469-399, Greek Philosopher of Athens

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(183 votes)   Who knows most believes least.

Proverbs

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(181 votes)   Men can acquire knowledge, but not wisdom. Some of the greatest fools ever known were learned men.

Spanish Proverbs
Sayings of Spanish Origin

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