Harmful Knowledge Quotes

Something might be true while being harmful and dangerous in the highest degree. Indeed, it might be a basic characteristic of existence that those who know it completely would perish, in which case the strength of a spirit should be measured according to how much of the 'truth' one could still barely endure- or to put it more clearly, to what degree one would require it to be thinned down, shrouded, sweetened, blunted, falsified.

If a little knowledge was a dangerous thing, a lot was lethal.

Knowledge isn't always good for you.

Education with inert ideas is not only useless; it is above all things harmful.

Better to be blinde, then to see ill.

Every other knowledge is harmful to him who does not have knowledge of goodness.

I do not approve the maxim which desires a man to know a little of everything. Superficial knowledge, knowledge without principles, is almost always useless and sometimes harmful knowledge.

And better had they ne'er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.

Psychology is as useless as directions for using poison.

A fool acquires knowledge only to his own disadvantage. It destroys what good he has, and turns his brains.