Overwhelming Knowledge Quotes

Physics is very muddled again at the moment; it is much too hard for me anyway, and I wish I were a movie comedian or something like that and had never heard anything about physics!

Sometimes when I'm in a bookstore or library, I am overwhelmed by all the things that I do not know. Then I am seized by a powerful desire to read all the books, one by one.

Why harass with eternal purposes a mind to weak to grasp them?

How could anyone stay sane with entire lifetimes stored in one human mind?

We all suffer under a curse, the curse that we know more than we can endure, and there is nothing, absolutely nothing we can do about the force and the lure of this knowledge.

As a kid you learn that there are thinkers and there are philosophers and there are theologian, and I'd hear little bits of the ideas that these people pursued or developed or created and I'd be really excited. Then I'll start to read it and I think, "Wait a minute, this is a rabbit hole. This isn't a gateway or a ticket to anything except itself."

If the scholar feels that he must know everything about any topic, he is in trouble - and will not publish with a clear conscience.

Like teenagers, we appear to have gone from knowing nothing about the world to knowing too much all but overnight.

I know too much and not enough

Too much knowledge never makes for simple decisions.

I know somewhat too much; and from this knowledge, once one has been infected, there seems to be no recovering.

The Library is a wilderness of books.