All FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Quotes about “Knowledge”

“Better know nothing than half-know many things.”
“The charm of knowledge would be small indeed, were it not that there is so much shame to be overcome on the way to it.”
“Once and for all, there are many things I choose not to know.--Wisdom sets limits even to knowledge.”
“Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.”
“He who speaks a bit of a foreign language has more delight in it than he who speaks it well; pleasure goes along with superficial knowledge.”
“Partial knowledge is more triumphant than complete knowledge; it takes things to be simpler than they are, and so makes its theory more popular and convincing.”
“Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge.”
“In almost all sciences the fundamental knowledge is either found in earliest times or is still being sought.”
“For the purpose of knowledge we must know how to make use of the inward current which draws us towards a thing, and also of the current which after a time draws us away from it.”
“Conversation with a friend will only bear good fruit of knowledge when both think only of the matter under consideration and forget that they are friends.”
“No honey is sweeter than that of knowledge.”
“Even great spirits have only their five-fingers' breadth of experience - just beyond it their thinking ceases and their endless empty space and stupidity begins.”
“Where there is the tree of knowledge, there is always Paradise: so say the most ancient and most modern serpents.”
“Every extension of knowledge arises from making the conscious the unconscious.”
“We have arranged for ourselves a world in which we can live - by positing bodies, lines, planes, causes and effects, motion and rest, form and content; without these articles of faith nobody could now endure life. But that does not prove them. Life is no argument. The conditions of life might include error.”
“Over immense periods of time the intellect produced nothing but errors. A few of these proved to be useful and helped to preserve the species: those who hit upon or inherited these had better luck in their struggle for themselves and their progeny. Such erroneous articles of faith... include the following: that there are things, substances, bodies; that a thing is what it appears to be; that our will is free; that what is good for me is also good in itself.”
“Linguistic danger to spiritual freedom.- Every word is a prejudice.”
“Metaphysical world.- It is true, there could be a metaphysical world; the absolute possibility of it is hardly to be disputed. We behold all things through the human head and cannot cut off this head; while the question nonetheless remains what of the world would still be there if one had cut it off.”
“The reasons for which 'this' world has been characterized as 'apparent' are the very reasons which indicate its reality; any other kind of reality is absolutely indemonstrable.”

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