Herman Melville Quotes About Knowledge

Quotes about: Knowledge

• Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed.

  Herman Melville

  Inspirational, Learning, Knowledge

  Herman Melville, Harrison Hayford, G. Thomas Tanselle (1987). “Piazza Tales and Other Prose Pieces, 1839-1860: Volume Nine, Scholarly Edition”, p.296, Northwestern University Press

• He knows himself, and all that's in him, who knows adversity.

  Herman Melville

  Knowledge, Adversity, Self

  Herman Melville (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated)”, p.1231, Delphi Classics

• You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.

  Herman Melville

  Knowledge, Reason, Knows

  Herman Melville (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated)”, p.1221, Delphi Classics

• People seem to have a great love for names. For to know a great many names seems to look like knowing a good many things.

  Herman Melville

  Knowledge, Names, Knowing

  Herman Melville (1850). “Redburn: His First Voyage. Being the Sailor-boy Confessions and Reminiscences of the Son-of-a-gentleman, in the Merchant Service”, p.89

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