knowledge Quotes

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.

Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.

Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one.

Without electricity, the air would rot.

The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?

Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.