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Knowledge.

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01c. 1851 AD

For I say this is death and the sole death,— When a man's loss comes to him from his gain, Darkness from light, from knowledge ignorance, And lack of love from love made manifest.

Robert Browning / quote

02c. 1855 AD

Not only around our infancy Doth heaven with all its splendors lie; Daily, with souls that cringe and plot, We Sinais climb and know it not.

James Russell Lowell / quote

03c. 1855 AD

Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how.

James Russell Lowell / quote

04c. 1855 AD

But John P. Robinson, he Sez they did n't know everythin' down in Judee.

James Russell Lowell / quote

05c. 1855 AD

In life's small things be resolute and great To keep thy muscle trained: know'st thou when Fate Thy measure takes, or when she 'll say to thee, "I find thee worthy; do this deed for me"?

James Russell Lowell / quote

06c. 1853 AD

I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effectual as their strict construction.

Ulysses S. Grant / quote

07c. 1855 AD

Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask. Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge.

Matthew Arnold / quote

08c. 1852 AD

And shall Trelawny die? Here 's twenty thousand Cornish men Will know the reason why.

Francis W. Bourdillon / quote

09Undated

There was once, in a remote part of the East, a man who was altogether void of knowledge and experience, yet presumed to call himself a physician.

Pilpay (Or Bidpai.) / quote

10c. 720 BC

We know to tell many fictions like to truths, and we know, when we will, to speak what is true.

Hesiod / quote

11c. 720 BC

Fools! they know not how much half exceeds the whole.

Hesiod / quote

12c. 491 BC

Few men have the natural strength to honour a friend's success without envy. . . . I well know that mirror of friendship, shadow of a shade.

Æschylus / quote

13c. 445 BC

I know, indeed, the evil of that I purpose; but my inclination gets the better of my judgment.

Euripides / quote

14c. 172 BC

Do not they bring it to pass by knowing that they know nothing at all?

Terence / quote

15c. 172 BC

I know the disposition of women: when you will, they won't; when you won't, they set their hearts upon you of their own inclination.

Terence / quote

16Undated

We may with advantage at times forget what we know.

Publius Syrus / maxim

17Undated

Better be ignorant of a matter than half know it.

Publius Syrus / maxim

18c. 51 AD

Indeed, what is there that does not appear marvellous when it comes to our knowledge for the first time? How many things, too, are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?

Pliny The Elder / quote

19c. 83 AD

As geographers, Sosius, crowd into the edges of their maps parts of the world which they do not know about, adding notes in the margin to the effect that beyond this lies nothing but sandy deserts full of wild beasts, and unapproachable bogs.

Plutarch / quote

20c. 83 AD

Knowledge of divine things for the most part, as Heraclitus says, is lost to us by incredulity.

Plutarch / quote

21c. 83 AD

Did you not know, then, that to-day Lucullus sups with Lucullus?

Plutarch / quote

22c. 83 AD

Alexander said, "I assure you I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion."

Plutarch / quote

23c. 83 AD

"And this," said Cæsar, "you know, young man, is more disagreeable for me to say than to do."

Plutarch / quote

24c. 83 AD

There are two sentences inscribed upon the Delphic oracle, hugely accommodated to the usages of man's life: "Know thyself," and "Nothing too much;" and upon these all other precepts depend.

Plutarch / quote