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.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there.

There is nothing which can better deserve your patronage, than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.

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

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.

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 eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine.

We are wiser than we know.

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

Great teachers emanate out of knowledge, passion and compassion.

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

To understand the power of the priesthood, we must know its limitations.

When I was in high school, there were these British blues-rock-type bands with really good guitar players that would jam on one song for half an hour. And as much as I was amazed by some of those guitar players, seeing them prompted me to make a note that that’s not something I could do.

I am not young enough to know everything.

The foolish man conceives the idea of ‚self.‘ The wise man sees there is no ground on which to build the idea of ‚self;‘ thus, he has a right conception of the world and well concludes that all compounds amassed by sorrow will be dissolved again, but the truth will remain.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

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

I have trouble imagining what I could do that’s beyond the practicality of what I can do.

Who would set a limit to the mind of man? Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

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

If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.

You will always have partial points of view, and you’ll always have the story behind the story that hasn’t come out yet. And any form of journalism you’re involved with is going to be up against a biased viewpoint and partial knowledge.

I can find in my undergraduate classes, bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or even that the Sun is a star.

The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

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

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

But by reading them again and again finally I was able to grasp the essential part. What emotion, enthusiasm, enlightenment and confidence they communicated to me! I wept for joy.

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

If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.

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

Women have to be active listeners and interrupters – but when you interrupt, you have to know what you are talking about.

Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.

There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.

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

He who gives away shall have real gain. He who subdues himself shall be free; he shall cease to be a slave of passions. The righteous man casts off evil, and by rooting out lust, bitterness, and illusion do we reach Nirvana.

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it’s not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it – this is knowledge.

Proselytism is solemn nonsense; it makes no sense. We need to get to know each other, listen to each other and improve our knowledge of the world around us.

George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.

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

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

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

The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.

Let’s not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.

As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!

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.

He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?

I think governments can’t do much.

Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.

The word ‚belief‘ is a difficult thing for me. I don’t believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it – I don’t need to believe it.

When we value correct principles, we have truth – a knowledge of things as they are.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.