A kind of semi-Solomon, half-knowing everything, from the cedar to the hyssop.
Diffused knowledge immortalizes itself.
Sra James Mackintosh—Vindicia GaMcoe.
Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.
Horace Mann—Lectures and Reports on Education. Lecture I.
Et teneo melius ista quam meum nomen.
I know all that better than my own name.
Maiitial—Epigrams. IV. 37. 7.
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| text = Only by knowledge of that which is not Thyself, shall thyself be learned.
I went into the temple, there to hear
The teachers of our law, and to propose
What might improve my knowledge or their own.
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| work = Paradise Regained.
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| text = <poem>Vous parlez devant un homme a qui tout
Naples est connu.
You speak before a man to whom all Naples
is known.
Moliere—L'Avare. V. 5.
Faites comme si je ne le savais pas.
Act as though I knew nothing.
Moliere—Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme. II. 6.
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| text = All things I thought I knew; but now confess
The more I know I know, I know the less.
Owen—Works. Bk. VI. 39.
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| text = <poem>Scire tuum nihil est, nisi te scire hoc sciat alter?
Is then thy knowledge of no value, unless
another know that thou possessest that knowledge?
Persius—Satires. I. 27.
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Ego te intus et in cute novi.
I know you even under the skin.
Persius—Satires. III. 30. Same in Erasmus—Adagia.
Plus scire satius est, quam loqui.
It is well for one to know more than he says.
Plautus—Epidecus. I. 1. 60.
That virtue only makes our bliss below,
And all our knowledge is ourselves to know.
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| work = Essay on M an. Ep. IV. L. 397.
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| text = <poem>In vain sedate reflections we would make
When half our knowledge we must snatch, not
take.
He that hath knowledge spareth his words.
Proverbs. XVII. 27.
I may tell all my bones.
Psalms. XXII. 17.
Que nuist savoir tousjours et tousjours appioa,
dre, fust ce
D'un sot, d'une pot, d'une que—doufle
D'un mouffe, d'un pantoufle.
What harm in learning and getting knowledge even from a sot, a pot, a fool, a mitten,
or a slipper.
Rabelais—Pantagruel. III. 16.
Then I began to think, that it is very true
which is commonly said, that the one-half of the
world knoweth not how the other half liveth.
Rabelais—Works. Bk. II. Ch. XXXIL
For the more a man knows, the more worthy
he is.
Robert of Gloucester—Rhyming Chronicle.
Far must thy researches go
Wouldst thou learn the world to know;
Thou must tempt the dark abyss
Wouldst thou prove what Being is;
Naught but firmness gains the prize,
Naught but fullness makes us wise,
Buried deep truth e'er lies.
Schiller—Proverbs of Confucius. Bowring's trans.
Willst du dich selber erkennen, so sieh' wie die
andern es treiben;
Willst du die andern versteh'n, blick in dein
eigenes Herz.
If you wish to know yourself observe how
others act.
If you wish to understand others look into
your own heart.
Schiller—Votire Tablets. Xenien.
Natura semina scientiae nobis dedit, scientiain
non dedit.
Nature has given us the seeds of knowledge,
not knowledge itself.
Seneca—Epistdke Ad Lucilium. CXX.
Crowns have their compass—length of days their date—
Triumphs their tomb—felicity, her fate—
Of nought but earth can earth make us partaker,
But knowledge makes a king most like his Maker.
Shakespeare on King James I. See Payne
Collier—Life of Shakespeare.
We know what we are, but know not what we maybe.
And seeing ignorance is the curse of God,
Knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
Too much to know is to know naught but fame.
