Top 66 Quotes About Too Much Knowledge
#1. The greatest danger in art is too much knowledge.
Andre Derain
#2. When I go out to direct a film, every day we prepare too much, we think too much. Knowledge becomes a weight upon wisdom. You know, simple words lost in the quicksand of experience.
Shekhar Kapur
#3. We gave you too much education and now you've gained too much knowledge that is blinding your wisdom.
S.A. David
#4. Too much knowledge isn't good for a person. I know that now.
Stephen King
#5. Too Much Knowledge never makes for Simple Decisions.
Frank Herbert
#7. War makes monsters of men, you once said to me Todd. Well, so does too much knowledge. Too much knowledge of your fellow man, too much knowledge of his weakness, his pathetic greed and vanity, and how laughably easy it is to control him.
Patrick Ness
#8. So this little boy was
I became her confidant a little too early, I think. It didn't seem to warp me exactly, but it left me with a little too much knowledge at an early age. [p. 143]
Mary Catherine Bateson
#9. There was too much truth there, too much knowledge. It was like looking into the sun - painful. Just look down.
Pepper Winters
#10. Jesus (pbuh) said, "It is of no use to you to come to know what you did not know, as long as you do not act in accordance with what you already know. Too much knowledge only increases pride if you do not act in accordance with it
Tarif Khalidi
#11. I thought they may have presumed too much knowledge of certain things for people who are not comedians. Like Montreal. A comic understands what it is and its importance, but someone else may not know about it.
Todd Barry
#12. I have always suspected that too much knowledge is a dangerous thing. It is a boon to people who don't have deep feelings; their pleasure comes from what they know ... But this only emphasizes the difference between the artist and the scholar.
Margaret Caroline Anderson
#14. People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge.
Laozi
#15. Everyone knows everything about all of us. That's too much knowledge!
William Shatner
#16. The past has too much knowledge embedded in it, and therefore it's best to forget it and start anew.
Tariq Ali
#17. Iyther you dont know nothing or you know too much it dont seam like theres any thing in be twean.
Russell Hoban
#18. What had I seen? Too much. What did I know? Only that knowledge carries a damned high price. Miss Wilcox, my teacher, had taught me so much. Why had she never taught me that?
Jennifer Donnelly
#19. Much knowledge will corrupt the heart,/When partly understood,/And so the people grow too smart,/But neither wise nor good.
Laozi
#20. Nothing would improve newspaper criticism so much as the knowledge that it was to be read by men too hardy to acquiesce in the authoritative statement of the reviewer.
Richard Holt Hutton
#21. Often, we are too slow to recognize
how much and in what ways we can assist each other
through sharing expertise and knowledge.
Owen Arthur
#23. Men suck," Bailey said, nodding supportively then frowning at Vaughn. "Why do you suck so much? Too much ball toxins?"
"Sounds about right," he muttered, rolling another strike. "Girls get PMS. Guys get ball toxins. Common knowledge.
Bijou Hunter
#24. Keep your head down, Edward. Those that see too much quickly find themselves seeing nothing at all.
Jasper Fforde
#25. Sir, there is nothing too little for so little creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great knowledge of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible. 16, July 1763.
Samuel Johnson
#26. I know somewhat too much; and from this knowledge, once one has been infected, there seems to be no recovering.
J.M. Coetzee
#27. We need both Socrates and Aristotle in the search for knowledge, but in education today there is too much Aristotle and too little Socrates.
Gregory J.E. Rawlins
#28. My heart swelled, my belly dipped and my head revolted. It was my head that knew how to react but his had happened with Henry too. When the pain of not having what I so very much wanted escalated before I settled into the knowledge that what I had was better than not having anything at all.
Kristen Ashley
#29. Knowledge is a rope, and you're weaving a noose out of it. Leave some slack for the enemy.
Nenia Campbell
#30. I've learned far too much to know everything.
J.S.B. Morse
#31. At the same time, you don't want to be blindsided at some point because you've taken too much comfort from knowing nothing. So you try to keep a little store of practical knowledge. At a certain point you have to pretend that something is true in order to have a relationship with the world.
Will Oldham
#33. They've (Israel) lost the battle for public opinion. They claim it's because American Jews know too little.. I claim it's because they know too much about the conflict, and young liberal Jews have difficulty defending the use of cluster bombs in Lebanon or supporting the Israeli settlements.
Norman Finkelstein
#35. It is perhaps too much the case with the multitude in every nation, that as they know little beyond themselves, and their own affairs, so out of this narrow sphere of knowledge, they think nothing worth knowing.
James Harris
#36. The New Your energy goes beyond anything you'll find anywhere else. It's too much for some people and it grinds them down, but it lifts up and animates the rest of us.
Lawrence Block
#37. I'm giving good advice everyday however I can help. People will hit me up and ask me all types of questions. I really don't know too much except what I've gone through, but whatever knowledge I have, I try and give.
Rahki
#38. Knowing too much of your future is never a good thing.
Rick Riordan
#39. A bug lies in quiet repose;
when he passed no one knows.
Did he suffer, was he pained?
Before he died, was knowledge gained?
Were all life's pressures much too great.To put upon so small a weight?
Although not one for pessimism,
I think he died of journalism!
Nikhil Sharda
#40. I know nothing, because I know too much, and understand not nearly enough and never will.
Anne Rice
#41. Who was there to guard youth from pain and death - youth who could not, who had never been able to, guard itself? Did they know too little? Or was it that they knew too much, and therefore thought they knew it all?
Agatha Christie
#42. We are shallow because we are 'mayabang,' ego driven, and do not have the humility to understand that we are only human, much too human to mistake knowledge for wisdom.
F. Sionil Jose
#43. Without knowledge there can be no sure progress. Vice and barbarism are the inseparable companions of ignorance. Nor is it too much to say that, except in rare instances, the highest virtue is attained only through intelligence.
Charles Sumner
#45. Isn't that wonderful? That feeling of not knowing too much about something ... Incomplete information ... Endless possibilities ... When you don't know much about something, it's the most exciting sensation.
-Kutsnetz in TALUS
Erol Ozan
#46. No civilization, including Plato's, has ever been destroyed because its citizens learned too much.
Robert McKee
#47. We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs.
Bertrand Russell
#48. We didn't have the day-in, day-out knowledge of each other that most mothers and daughters have. It's not like she was a stranger; we had too much history for that. But at the same time, I couldn't say I knew her well. Or at least well enough to see her thoughts.
Eliot Schrefer
#49. My father taught me that learning is an endless process, and that there is no limit to the amount of knowledge a person can contain. You are never too old to learn something new, or too young to learn too much.
Suzy Kassem
#50. People in business are uniquely unqualified to see their own companies and product objectively. Too much product knowledge causes them to instinctively answer questions no one is asking.
Roy H. Williams
#51. It is truly horrible to understand yourself as the essential below of your country. It breaks too much of what we would like to think about ourselves, our lives, the world we move through and the people who surround us. The struggle to understand is our only advantage over this madness.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#52. Knowledge is to the strong, and we are weak. Too much wisdom would perchance blind our imperfect sight, and too much strength would make us drunk, and overweight our feeble reason till it fell, and we were drowned in the depths of our own vanity.
H. Rider Haggard
#53. He possessed the logic of all good intentions and a knowledge of all the tricks of his trade, and yet he never succeeded at anything, because he believed too much in the impossible. Surprising? Why so? He was forever in the act of conceiving it!
Charles Baudelaire
#54. And so your personality is shaped. You know too much, and this knowledge makes you wary. You grow fearful and mistrustful. The expression of emotion does not come naturally, so you learn to fake it. To pretend. To display an empathy you don't actually feel.
Christina Baker Kline
#55. Yeah. Floyd is his batman."
His what?"
Batman, like in the British army, each officer had a batman, a personal servant."
You spend too much time reading, Spenser. You know more stuff that don't make you money than anybody I know.
Robert B. Parker
#56. These Gentlemen must be told, that they take too much upon themselves when they pretend to appoint how far and no farther Men shall go in their Searches, and to set bounds to other Mens Industry; as if they knew the Marks that God has placed to Knowledge ...
Christiaan Huygens
#57. If you don't listen to your animal instincts, you are placing too much importance on knowledge thereby not being wise.
Karen Salmansohn
#58. Too much to know is to know nought but fame;
And every godfather can give a name.
William Shakespeare
#60. Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.
Plato
#61. It was strange to Old Robert that he, who knew so much more than his neighbors, who had pondered so endlessly, should be not even a good farmer. Sometimes he imagined he understood too many things ever to do anything well.
John Steinbeck
#62. Infrastructure alone won't end poverty. The World Bank had to learn this lesson, too. While we believed too much in bricks and mortar in our early days, we now understand that bringing together funding, technical expertise, and tested knowledge goes much further.
Sri Mulyani Indrawati
#63. Beware of confining yourself to a particular belief and denying all else, for much good would elude you - indeed, the knowledge of reality would elude you. Be in yourself a matter for all forms of belief, for God is too vast and tremendous to be restricted to one belief rather than another.
Ibn Arabi
#64. The truth is like salt. Men want to taste a little, but too much makes everyone sick.
Joe Abercrombie
#65. When intelligent and sensible people despise knowledge in their old age, it is only because they have asked too much of it and of themselves.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#66. Knowledge is good. It does not have to look good or sound good or even do good. It is good just by being knowledge. And the only thing that makes it knowledge is that it is true. You can't have too much of it and there is no little too little to be worth.
Tom Stoppard
