All men naturally desire knowledge.

-Aristotle
Metaphysics, bk.1, ch.1, 980a (translated by H  Tredennick).

Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask:Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge.

-Arnold, Matthew
  The Strayed Reveller, and Other Poems,'Shakespeare'.

Of these two literatures [French and German], as of the intellect of Europe in general, the main effort, for now many years, has beena critical effort; the endeavours, in all branches of knowledgeötheology, philosophy, history, art, scienceötoseethe object as initself it really is.

-Arnold, Matthew
On Translating Homer, lecture 2.

Oh! it is onlya novel!†only some work in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineationof itsvarieties,theliveliesteffusions of wit and humour are conveyed to the world in the best chosen language.

-Austen,Jane
  Northanger Abbey, ch.5.

It appears, then, that ethics, as a branch of knowledge, is nothing more than a department of psychologyand sociology.

-Ayer, SirAlfred Jules
  Language, Truth and Logic, ch.6.

I have taken all knowledge to be my province.

-Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans
  Letter to Lord Burghley.

Knowledge is power

-Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans
  Meditationes sacrae,'De Haresibus' (Of Heresies).

For all knowledge and wonder (which is the seed of knowledge) is an impression of pleasure in itself.

-Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans
  The Advancement of Learning, bk.1, ch.1, section 3.

The knowledge of man is as the waters, some descending from above, and some springing from beneath; the one informed by the light of nature, the other inspired by divine revelation.

-Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans
  The Advancement of Learning, bk.2, ch.5, section1.

Of knowledge there is no satiety.

-Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans
  The Advancement of Learning, bk.2.

The end of our foundation is the knowledge of causes, and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of human Empire, to the effecting of all things possible.

-Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans
  New Atlantis (published posthumously,1627).

If you dissemble sometimes your knowledge of that you are thought to know, you shall be thought, another time, to know that you know not.

-Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans
  Essays, no.32,'Of Discourse'.

The end of our foundation is the knowledge of causes, and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of human Empire, to the effecting of all things possible.

-Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans
  Of Solomon's House, the centre of Bacon's scientific utopia. New Atlantis (published1627).

There are two modes of acquiring knowledge, namely, by reasoning and experience. Reasoning draws a conclusion and makes us grant the conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, nor does it remove doubt so that the mind may rest on the intuition of truth unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience.

-Bacon, Roger known as Doctor Mirabilis
  Opus Majus (translated by Robert Belle Burke,1928).

Amer savoir, celui qu'on tire du voyage! Bitter is the knowledge gained in travelling.

-Baudelaire, Charles
  Les Fleurs du mal,'Le Voyage'.

   I am inclined tothink that the fargreater part, if not all, of those difficulties which have hitherto amused philosophers, and blocked up the way to knowledge, are entirely owing to ourselvesöthat we have first raised a dust and then complain we cannot see.

-Berkeley, George
  A  Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge, introduction.

Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vain; he multiplieth words without knowledge.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Job 35:16.

Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge? Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me.Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Job 38:2^4.

O L, thou hast searched me, and known me. Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off. Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways. For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo,O L, thou knowest it altogether. Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon me. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot attain unto it.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDORDPsalms139:1^6.

For inmuchwisdomismuchgrief: and hethat increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Ecclesiastes1:18.