I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible.

The woman that deliberates is lost.

I am not young enough to know everything.

Love is a really scary thing, and you never know what’s going to happen. It’s one of the most beautiful things in life, but it’s one of the most terrifying. It’s worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories.

Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.

It’s so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.

I accept chaos, I’m not sure whether it accepts me.

I kind of thought that stand-up comedy would suffer from the Internet because people seem to know more about the craft of stand-up than ever before. I thought it would seem trite. Kind of like if you know more about magicians, you wouldn’t love them.

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.

You’ve got to invest in the world, you’ve got to read, you’ve got to go to art galleries, you’ve got to find out the names of plants. You’ve got to start to love the world and know about the whole genius of the human race. We’re amazing people.

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

We’ve got to dumb America up again.

There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

I think the discovery of supersymmetric partners for the known particles would revolutionize our understanding of the universe.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

It is not like I have gone crazy, I just don’t want to take any chances. You never know what could happen.

I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

Bayern want a decade of success like Barca. That’s OK if you have the money because it increases the possibility of success. But it’s not guaranteed.

In the theatre, people talk. Talk, talk until the cows come home about journeys of discovery and about what Hazlitt thought of a line of Shakespeare. I can’t stand it.

The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

There’s nothing you can know that isn’t known.

Collecting facts is important. Knowledge is important. But if you don’t have an imagination to use the knowledge, civilization is nowhere.

I’m a spokesman for myself. It just so happens that there’s a bunch of people that are concerned with what I have to say. I find that frightening at times because I’m just as confused as most people. I don’t have the answers for anything.

Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think because they congenitally lack the equipment to do so, just as they congenitally lack the equipment to fly over the moon.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

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

Doing what’s right isn’t the problem. It is knowing what’s right.

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.

The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.

If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.

No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.

It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.

The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more.

Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.

I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

Would you bet your paycheck on a weather forecast for tomorrow? If not, then why should this country bet billions on global warming predictions that have even less foundation?

We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows.

To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.

It’s not an experiment if you know it’s going to work.

The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.

The trouble with our Liberal friends is not that they’re ignorant; it’s just that they know so much that isn’t so.

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

‚I wish life was not so short,‘ he thought. ‚Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.‘

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know – and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.

You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher; our future depends on the quality of education of our children today.

There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.

It’s a very confusing era that we’re in.

You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.