Knowledge Quotes

"Each year fewer and fewer words, and the range of consciousness always a little smaller."

"Consciousness, as we understand it, is incompatible with the Party's needs."

"There is a Party slogan: 'Ignorance is strength.' But is there wisdom in ignorance?"

"By means of Newspeak, the greatest difficulty for the Party would be doing things without thinking."

"We all love to instruct, though we may not all have the same reason."

"Thinking is, or it might be taught that some certain significance lurks in all things."

"I only ask for information."

"There are only two kinds of people in the world that are really fascinating—people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."

"My eyes were opened to a wider world."

"It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data."

"There is a wisdom that is woe and a woe that is madness."

"Knowledge is a surer happiness than ignorance is."

"Experience is merely the name men give to their mistakes."

"All the subtle demonism of life and thought is prisoned in the skull."

"The man who says he knows nothing but the law is the man who knows nothing."

"He has taught me much, and will teach me more yet."

"To define is to limit."

"Experience is simply the name we give to our mistakes."

"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything and people who know absolutely nothing."

"The mind of a thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing."

"Knowledge of certain kinds is not desirable."

"Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes."

"Why is it that a man who knows everything is bored."

"The more one analyses people, the more all reasons for analysis fail."

"The mind of a thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing."

"Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things."

"Shipmates, this book is bound in the skin of landAnimals."

"I suppose the more one knows the more one discovers that ignorance was bliss."

"The whale, as it appears to be, ought to be examined."

"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."