Excessive Knowledge Quotes

We know too much for one man to know too much.

An excessive knowledge of Marxism is a sign of a misspent youth.

To read too many books is harmful.

Bees are sometimes drowned in the honey which they collectso some writers are lost in their collected learning.

Pedantry is properly the over-rating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to.

When I know too much I get bored too fast.

The things that you know more about than you want to know are very useful.

Knowledge is almost annoying.

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.

I don't like purely philosophical works. I think a little philosophy should be added to life and art by way of seasoning, but to make it one's specialty seems to me as strange as eating nothing but horseradish." - Lara, from Doctor Zhivago

You have overburdened your argument with ostentatious erudition.

It is fatal to know too much at the outcome: boredom comes as quickly to the traveler who knows his route as to the novelist who is over certain of his plot.

You litter poems with too much learning when you're younger.

Leave off that excessive desire of knowing; therein is found much distraction. There are many things the knowledge of which is of little or no profit to the soul.

Pedantry is the dotage of knowledge.

He not only overflowed with learning, but stood in the slop.

Too much to know is to know naught but fame.

There can be no excess to love, none to knowledge, none to beauty.

A little too wise, they say, do ne'er live long.

We may receive so much light as not to see, and so much philosophy as to be worse than foolish.

If you crave for Knowledge, the banquet of Knowledge grows and groans on the board until the finer appetite sickens.

Pendantry is the unseasonable ostentation of learning. It may be discovered either in the choice of a subject or in the manner d treating it.