There is no knowledge of true being. The world is fundamentally in a state of becoming.
                      Friedrich Nietzsche

    The Golden Rule is that there is no golden rule.
                    George Bernard Shaw

    To know what everyone knows is to know nothing.
                   Remy de Gourmont

     It is no accident then that we speak of a body of knowledge: thought constructs itself in the world of material objects, fragrances, and sensual presence in time. 
                      Jane Hirshfield: Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry

     We have all heard it said that one picture is worth a thousand words. Yet, if this statement is true, why does it have to be a saying? Because a picture is worth a thousand words only under special conditions - which commonly include a context of words in which the picture is set. 
                      Walter Ong, The Orality of Language, page 7

    The past is any number of foreign countries, in each one of which they do things differently - and the same goes for the present.
                      Christopher Reid

    All the evidence is consistent with stories being hardwired in the human brain.
                   Edmund Wilson
 

Seeking to know is only too often learning to doubt.
                    Antoinette Deshoulieres

To know the world, one must construct it.
                    Pavese

We hear and apprehend only what we already half know.
                   Thoreau

In times of drastic change, it is the learners who inherit the future.  The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.
                     Eric Hoffer

    What boy well raised can compare with your street gamin who has the knoweldge and shrewdness of a grown-up broker.
                   E. Hubbard

    Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge.
                   Bernard

    All that is alive tends toward color, individuality, specificity, effectiveness, and opacity: all thata is done with life inclines toward knowledge, abstraction, generality transfiguration, and transparency.
                    Goethe

    A little learning  is a dang'rous thing.
    Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
                      Alexander Pope

    Only when we know a little do we know anything; doubt grows with knowledge.
                      Goethe

    To know what everyone knows is to know nothing.
                    Remy de Gourmont

    Knowledge itself is power.
                   Francis Bacon

    The Socratic manner is not a game that two can play.
                  Beerbohm

    Hence is it that we make trifles of terrors, ensconcing ourselves into seeming knowledge when we should submit ourselves to an unknown fear.
                 Shakespeare, All's Well that Ends Well, Act II, scene iii.

    Knowledge is erotic. We see this not only in the Bible's dual use of the term "to know", but also as the classicist Anne Carson has pointed out, in teh Homeric verb, mnaomai, which means both to "hold in attention" and to "woo".
                     Jane Hirshfield, Nine Gates, page 58.

    How can I tell what I think until I see what I say.
                  E.M.Forster

     With a knowledge of the name comes a distincter recognition oand knowledge of the thing.
                  Thoreau

     Speech is the mother, not the handmaid, of thought. 
                 Karl Kraus

     One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.
                 Ludwig Wittgenstein

     It is almost impossible to state what one in fact believes, because it is almost impossible to hold a belief and to define it at the same time.
                 William Carlos Williams

     A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of an idea within a wall of words.
                 Samuel Butler

     Hence is it that we make trifles of terrors, ensconcing ourselves into seeming knowledge when we should submit ourselves to an unknown fear.
                 Shakespeare, All's Well that Ends Well, Act II, scene iii.