Negative Knowledge Quotes

The less you know, the more I comprehend. You don't have to drag me down, I descend.

Because we cannot know what God is, but only what He is not, we cannot consider how He is but only how He is not.

Knowledge isn't always good for you.

I've got volumes on how not to behave. I've got more information now than a guy should have at my age.

There are many ways of performing the operations successfully. I can claim, however, to be in a position to explain how not to putt. I think I know as well as anybody how not to do it.

We have heard of a Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. It is said that knowledge is power, and the like. Methinks there is equal need of a Society for the Diffusion of Useful Ignorance, what we will call Beautiful Knowledge, a knowledge useful in a higher sense: for what is most of our boasted so-called knowledge but a conceit that we know something, which robs us of the advantage of our actual ignorance? What we call knowledge is often our positive ignorance; ignorance our negative knowledge.