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I suggest the short story "The Scotty Who Knew Too Much", by James Thurber.
Amazingly enough, it illustrates both the truth of this quote, and the opposite as well.
try "the idiot" by Dostoevski for the oposite
tha man that knows everything never has tha time 2 share it so it's depressing, at tha same time having a intellectual advantage doesn't guarantee sorrow but it ensures tha likelihood of mental survival at least on tha level of existence and existence alone
for one example take the garden of eden. adam and eve chose knowledge and suffered for it.
another is the stand by stephen king. the character harold lauder is a genius and can never make himself happy through the whole story. he's never satisfied and his only joy is feeding his superiority complex while he works to serve randall flag.
in both instances the gaining of knowledge brings about a downfall instead of salvation.
If religious examples are fine, then I would recommend the Book of Ecclesiastes by King Solomon in the Bible. In this book, Solomon describes how he attains all his wealth, wisdom, and knowledge, but in the end, he realizes that it is "all dust" and that "everything is useless" - in all, he declares that wisdom caused him grief, and through gaining knowledge (and hence his wealth and glory) he actually lost much, resulting in sorrow and pain.
However, a book that would support this quotation would have to be "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius. This technically does not count as a novel or anything, but it is actually a collection of thoughts and passing muses of the emperor Aurelius during his life. It is basically his private journal, and in it, he details how his life, which is often so fraught with grief and pain (he lived in the waning period of the Pax Romana, hence there were many wars and battles, etc) is made more bearable by his constant pursuit for wisdom - and thus, he has been noted as one of the greatest stoic philosophers of the age. I hope that these apply!
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