But ask not bodies (doomed to die),
To what abode they go;
Since knowledge-is but sorrow's spy,
It is not safe to know.
Thales was asked what was very difficult; he
said: "To know one's self."
Diogenes Laertius—Thales. DC.
| seealso = (See also Chilo)
| topic = Knowledge
| page = 421
}}
{{Hoyt quote
| num =
| text = <poem>To be conscious that you are ignorant is a
great step to knowledge.
Benj. Disraeli—Sybil. Bk. I. Ch. V.
He that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
Ecchsiastes. I. 18.
Our knowledge is the amassed thought and
experience of innumerable minds.
Emerson—Letters and Social Aims. Quotation
and Originality.
Knowledge is the antidote to fear,—
Knowledge, Use and Reason, with its higher aids.
Emerson—Society and Solitude. Courage.
There is no knowledge that is not power.
Emerson—Society and Solitude. Old Age.
| seealso = (See also Bacon)
| topic = Knowledge
| page = 421
}}
{{Hoyt quote
| num =
| text = <poem>Was man nicht versteht, besitzt man nicht.
What we do not understand we do not possess.
Goethe—Spriiche in Prosa.
Eigentlich weiss man nur wenn man wenig
weiss; mit dem Wissen wachst der Zweifel.
We know accurately only when we know
little; with knowledge doubt increases.
Goethe—Spriiche in Prosa.
Who can direct, when all pretend to know?
The first step to self-knowledge is self-distrust.
Nor can we attain to any kind of knowledge,
except by a like process.
J. C. and A. W. Hake—Guesses at Truth.
P. 454.
Nec scire fas est omnia.
One cannot know everything.
Horace—Carmina. IV, 4. 22.
Si quid novisti rectius istis.
Candidus imperti, si non, his utere mecum.
If you know anything better than this candidly impart it; if not, use this with me.
Horace—Epistles. I. 6. 67.
A desire of knowledge is the natural feeling of
mankind; and every human being whose mind is
not debauched, will be willing to give all that he
has to get knowledge.
| author = Samuel Johnson
| work = Boswell's Life of Johnson.
Conversation on Saturday, July 30, 1763.
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find
information upon it.
| author = Samuel Johnson
| work = Boswell's Life of Johnson.
(1775)
| topic = Knowledge
| page = 421
}}
{{Hoyt quote
| num =
| text = <poem>Knowledge is more than equivalent to force.
| author = Samuel Johnson
| work = Rasselas. Ch. XIII.
| seealso = (See also Bacon)
| topic = Knowledge
| page = 421
}}
{{Hoyt quote
| num =
| text = <poem>E coelo descendit nosce te ipsum.
This precept descended from Heaven: know
thyself.
Juvenal—Satires. XI. 27.
| seealso = (See also Chtlo)
| topic = Knowledge
| page = 421
}}
{{Hoyt quote
| num =
| text = <poem>There are gems of wondrous brightness
Ofttimes lying at our feet,
And we pass them, walkjng thoughtless,
Down the busy, crowded street.
If we knew, our pace would slacken,
We would step more oft with care,
Lest our careless feet be treading
To the earth some jewel rare.
Kipling—If We Only Understood. Attributed
to him in Masonic Standard, May 16, 1908.
Not found. Claimed for Bessie Smith.
Laissez dire les sots: le savoir a son prix.
Let fools the studious despise,
There's nothing lost by being wise.
La Fontaine—Fables. VIII. 19.
II connoit l'univers, et ne se connoit pas.
He knoweth the universe, and himself he
knoweth not.
La Fontaine—Fables. VIII. 26.
| seealso = (See also Chilo)
| topic = Knowledge
| page = 421
}}
{{Hoyt quote
| num =
| text = <poem>Not if I know myself at all.
Charles Lamb—Essays of Elia. The Old and
the New Schoolmaster.
Wer viel weiss
Hat viel zu sorgen.
He who knows much has many cares.
Lessing—Nathan der Weise. IV. 2.
The improvement of the understanding is for
two ends : first, for our own increase of knowledge ;
secondly, to enable us to deliver and make out
that knowledge to others.
Locke—Some Thoughts Concerning Reading
and Study. Appendix B.
'Tain't a knowin' kind of cattle
Thet is ketched with mouldy corn.
| author = Lowell
| work = Biglow Papers. No. 1. L. 3.
Scire est nescire, nisi id me scire alius scierit.
To know is not to know, unless someone else
has known that I know.
Luctlius—Fragment.
| seealso = (See also {{sc|Persius)
Quid nobis certius ipsis
Sensibus esse potest? qui vera ac falso notemus.
What can give us more sure knowledge than
our senses? How else can we distinguish between the true and the false?
Lucretius—De Rerum Natura. I. 700.
