„p>I am incapable of more knowledge.What is this, this faceSo murderous in its strangle of branches? —Its snaky acids hiss.It petrifies the will. These are the isolate, slow faults,That kill, that kill, that kill.
— Sylvia Plath

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„The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.“
— Anaïs Nin
„Knowledge is your weapon… Kill them with it.“
— Jim Butcher
„Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion.“
— Friedrich Nietzsche
„There is no happiness without knowledge. But knowledge of happiness is unhappy; for knowing ourselves happy is knowing ourselves passing through happiness, and having to, immediatly at once, leave it behind. To know is to kill, in happiness as in everything. Not to know, though, is not to exist.“
— Fernando Pessoa
„p. 407–8 cited in: Hilary Putnam (2008) "Pragmatism and nonscientific knowledge" James Conant, Urszula M. Zeglen (2012) Hilary Putnam: Pragmatism and Realism.“
— John Dewey