Electrical science has revealed to us the true nature of light, has provided us with innumerable appliances and instruments of precision, and has thereby vastly added to the exactness of our knowledge.

Grace is not part of consciousness; it is the amount of light in our souls, not knowledge nor reason.

I have never been able to renounce the light, the pleasure of being, and the freedom in which I grew up.

Doubt grows with knowledge.

Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.

There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating – people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.

Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.

Intuition and concepts constitute… the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.

The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

Please don’t make the mistake of thinking that ‚Oryx and Crake‘ is anti-science. Science is a way of knowing, and a tool. Like all ways of knowing and tools, it can be turned to bad uses. And it can be bought and sold, and it often is. But it is not in itself bad. Like electricity, it’s neutral.

There happen to be a lot of people around who spent an hour on the Internet and think they know a lot of physics, but it doesn’t work like that… There’s a reason there are graduate schools in these departments.

All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.

I am a part of everything that I have read.

Study men, not historians.

Atheism is so senseless. When I look at the solar system, I see the earth at the right distance from the sun to receive the proper amounts of heat and light. This did not happen by chance.

A person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read.

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven’t and don’t.

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.

All men are born with a nose and five fingers, but no one is born with a knowledge of God.

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves – and the better the teacher, the better the student body.

The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.

The only source of knowledge is experience.

Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

The killer app that got the world ready for appliances was the light bulb. So the light bulb is what wired the world. And they weren’t thinking about appliances when they wired the world. They were really thinking about – they weren’t putting electricity into the home. They were putting lighting into the home.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

I can play a lot of different instruments adequately but nothing really well.

One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.

Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.

Relish everything that’s inside of you, the imperfections, the darkness, the richness and light and everything. And that makes for a full life.

A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.

Between the ages of fifteen and twenty-four, I must have read a whole library.

No man who worships education has got the best out of education… Without a gentle contempt for education no man’s education is complete.

You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past – whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.

Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.

He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.

Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.

All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its mechanical part.

The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.

Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity.

When I write, I write about my surroundings. Sometimes it’s light, and sometimes it gets very dark.

We have to abandon the idea that schooling is something restricted to youth. How can it be, in a world where half the things a man knows at 20 are no longer true at 40 – and half the things he knows at 40 hadn’t been discovered when he was 20?

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.

The proper study of mankind is books.

Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.

The book you don’t read won’t help.

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

The wisest have the most authority.

They know enough who know how to learn.

Education is important because it prepares you for life.

Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness.

A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

An empowered organisation is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organisational success.

Many admire, few know.