John Milton Quotes, Ignorance Quotes, Knowledge Quotes

Knowledge forbidden? Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord Envy them that? Can it be sin to know, Can it be death? And do they only stand By ignorance? Is that their happy state, The proof of their obedience and their faith? O fair foundation laid whereon to build Their ruin!

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The trouble with the world is not that people know too little; it's that they know so many things that just aren't so.

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We have no organ at all for knowledge, for truth: we know (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be useful in the interest of the human herd, the species: and even what is here called usefulness is in the end only a belief, something imagined and perhaps precisely that most fatal piece of stupidity by which we shall one day perish.

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Go out of the house to see the moon, and 't is mere tinsel; it will not please as when its light shines upon your necessary journey. The beauty that shimmers in the yellow afternoons of October, who could ever clutch it? Go forth to find it, and it is gone: 't is only a mirage as you look from the windows of diligence.

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There are men who teach best by not teaching at all.

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By all means sometimes be alone; salute thyself; see what thy soul doth wear; dare to look in thy chest; and tumble up and down what thou findest there.

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With enough of us, around the world, we'll not just send a strong message opposing the privatization of knowledge - we'll make it a thing of the past.

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It is rightly laid down that 'true knowledge is knowledge by causes'. Also the establishment of four causes is not bad: material, formal, efficient and final.

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Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

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There is far greater peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.

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But also the constituency determines the vote of the representative. He is not only representative, but participant. Like can onlybe known by like. The reason why he knows about them is, that he is of them; he has just come out of nature, or from being a part of the thing.

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Those who know it do not speak about it. Those who speak about it do not know it.

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Every one is least known to himself, and it is very difficult for a man to know himself.

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Knowledge is not happiness, and science But an exchange of ignorance for that Which is another kind of ignorance.

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A fact is the end or last issue of spirit. The visible creation is the terminus or the circumference of the invisible world.

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Hasn't knowledge only crippled me from seeing truth? Is knowledge itself illusory?

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If I had an hour to solve a problem and my life depended on the solution, I would spend the first 55 minutes determining the proper question to ask, for once I know the proper question, I could solve the problem in less than five minutes.

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We no longer love our knowledge enough once we have passed it on.

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My words have an origin. My deeds have a sovereign. Truly, because people do not understand this, they do not understand me.

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You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud, and fruit.

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