William Shakespeare Quotes About Knowledge

• We know what we are, but know not what we may be.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Business, Good Life

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 4, sc. 5, l. [43]

• Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

  William Shakespeare

  God, Ignorance, Knowledge

  William Shakespeare (1826). “Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.521

• I say there is no darkness but ignorance.

  William Shakespeare

  Ignorance, Knowledge, Darkness

  1601 Feste to Malvolio.Twelfth Night, act 4, sc.2, l.43-4.

• Go to you bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Knowledge, Soul

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.88

• Hereafter, in a better world than this, I shall desire more love and knowledge of you

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Love You, Knowledge

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 1, sc. 2, l. [301]

• Crowns have their compass-length of days their date-
  Triumphs their tomb-felicity, her fate-
  Of nought but earth can earth make us partaker,
  But knowledge makes a king most like his Maker.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Knowledge, Fate

  William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier (1858). “Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems”, p.171

• Too much to know is to know naught but fame.

  William Shakespeare

  Knowledge, Too Much, Fame

  William Shakespeare (2009). “Love's Labour's Lost”, p.66, Cambridge University Press

• All difficulties are easy when they are known.

  William Shakespeare

  Knowledge, Easy, Difficulty

  William Shakespeare (1812). “Aphorisms from Shakespeare”

• If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Future, Knowledge

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 1, sc. 3, l. 58

• Learning is but an adjunct to ourself, And where we are our learning likewise is.

  William Shakespeare

  Knowledge

  William Shakespeare (1797). “The plays of William Shakspeare...”, p.55

• Sweets grown common lose their dear delight.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Knowledge, Delight

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.932

• Too much to know is to know nought but fame;
  And every godfather can give a name.

  William Shakespeare

  Knowledge, Names, Giving

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1773). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: Measure for measure. Comedy of errors. Much ado about nothing. Love's labour lost”, p.345

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