It is paradoxical, yet true, to say, that the more we know, the more ignorant we become in the absolute sense, for it is only through enlightenment that we become conscious of our limitations. Precisely one of the most gratifying results of intellectual evolution is the continuous opening up of new and greater prospects.

We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.

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.

Folks don’t like to have somebody around knowing more than they do.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

The words of truth are always paradoxical.

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.

Our Creator expects His children everywhere to educate themselves.

The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.

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

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.

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.

Knowledge is true opinion.

The highest revelation is that God is in every man.

The wisest have the most authority.

We all have limitations. I don’t have the right genes to be an Olympic weightlifter. I don’t have the right genetics to be an Olympic sprinter. Or gymnast. Sure, if I trained my whole life, perhaps I could have become fairly decent in those sports.

Hide our ignorance as we will, an evening of wine soon reveals it.

You cannot open a book without learning something.

It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.

The natural desire of good men is knowledge.

To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.

It always seems to me so odd that when a man dies, he takes out with him all the knowledge that he has got in his lifetime whilst sowing his wild oats or winning successes. And he leaves his sons or younger brothers to go through all the work of learning it over again from their own experience.

If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

I never had that feeling that I had to carry the weight of somebody’s ignorance around with me. And that was true for racists who wanted to use the ‚n‘ word when talking about me or about my people, or the stupidity of people who really wanted to belittle other folks because they weren’t pretty or they weren’t rich or they weren’t clever.

Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.

I’m for women choosing whatever they want to do but they have to really know what they are doing.

I got a fancy reputation. During high school, every puzzle that was known to man must have come to me. Every damn, crazy conundrum that people had invented, I knew.

The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don’t know anything about.

When you revolutionize education, you’re taking the very mechanism of how people be smarter and do new things, and you’re priming the pump for so many incredible things.

Doubt grows with knowledge.

The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.

Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.

Prejudice is a chain, it can hold you. If you prejudice, you can’t move, you keep prejudice for years. Never get nowhere with that.

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

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.

We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.

Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who’ll get me a book I ain’t read.

Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.

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

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

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

The utmost extent of man’s knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.

If I get stuck, I look at a book that tells me how someone else did it. I turn the pages, and then I say, ‚Oh, I forgot that bit,‘ then close the book and carry on. Finally, after you’ve figured out how to do it, you read how they did it and find out how dumb your solution is and how much more clever and efficient theirs is!

The proper study of mankind is books.

There are many things that I don’t understand.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.

Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters.

I have done one thing that I think is a contribution: I helped Buddhist science and modern science combine. No other Buddhist has done that. Other lamas, I don’t think they ever pay attention to modern science. Since my childhood, I have a keen interest.

His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even… knowledge, was foolproof.

We have no right to express an opinion until we know all of the answers.

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

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