People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of.
Knowledge is a beautiful thing, but there are a few things I wish I didn't know.
Knowing is not understanding. There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it.
Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
Knowledge is more important than life. We've only one excuse for existing, to think, to find out, to learn.
It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.
Knowledge is the life of the mind.
While some of us may know than others about certain things, it is the thinnest slice of all that is, or could be known. In that sense, we are all profoundly ignorant.
Wonder is the desire for knowledge.
To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.