Knowledge Quote by Nikolai Gogol

“Man would have been too happy, if, limiting himself to the visible objects which interested him, he had employed, to perfect his real sciences,…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“He knew that for all his admission of Chaos he would be better able to do what he wished in a world ordered by…

— Michael Moorcock

“Yet he continued to return to his core principle: that, in every situation, knowledge was better than ignorance. However agonizing, it was necessary to…

— Haruki Murakami

“The pursuit of knowledge, he maintained, was a worthy objective in its own right and needed no external validation.”

— Jon Krakauer

“I felt convinced that however it might have been in former times, in the present stage of the world, no man's faculties could be…

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

“And he could not take the chance of putting his certain ignorance against this man's possible knowledge.”

— John Steinbeck

“There were times he thought it would have been far better to never have known. Yet he continued to return to his core principle:…

— Haruki Murakami

“Whoever possessed knowledge not only had power over the changeable passions of people, but also power over their thinking, over their minds, hearts and…

— Peter Prange

“He mad no moral judgements. He accepted mankind as he found it, and looked for the profit to be made from its strengths or…

— Wilbur A. Smith

“He developed his revolutionary philosophy, with its grounding not in the Bible or ancient writers but in human reason, and became famous and infamous…

— Russell Shorto

“Only when he has attained a final knowledge of all things will man have come to know himself. For things are only the boundaries…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Moreover, he felt vaguely that what he called his convictions were not only ignorance but were a way of thinking that made the knowledge…

— Leo Tolstoy