He that knew all that learning ever writ, Knew only this - that he knew nothing yet.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
He knew everything about literature except how to enjoy it.
His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.
Man can learn nothing except by going from the known to the unknown.
He that hath knowledge spareth his words.
Life has obliged him to remember so much useful knowledge that he has lost not only his history, but his whole original cargo of useless knowledge; history, languages, literatures, the higher mathematics, or what you will - are all gone.
I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could ever hope to know or do in half a dozen lifetimes.
The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
You never know what you will learn till you start writing. Then you discover truths you never knew existed.
He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.
Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much.
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