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

Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.

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

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.

He who knows best knows how little he knows.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.

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

The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

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.

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.

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

We seem gradually to be groping toward an understanding of the world of subatomic particles, but we really do not know how far we have yet to go in this task.

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.

All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.

Those who have knowledge, don’t predict. Those who predict, don’t have knowledge.

The American doctor, in my opinion, possesses a combination of conservatism and that other quality which has put the United States in the forefront in almost every department of science – that is, an eagerness to know what it is really all about in order that he may not be the one left behind if there is something to it.

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.

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.

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

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.

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.

It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length.

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

Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.

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

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.

Our Creator expects His children everywhere to educate themselves.

No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

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

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

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.

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

Many admire, few know.

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

The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.

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

There’s very little advice in men’s magazines, because men don’t think there’s a lot they don’t know. Women do. Women want to learn. Men think, ‚I know what I’m doing, just show me somebody naked.‘

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.

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

Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.

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

Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks.

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

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

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.

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.

As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.

There is no darkness but ignorance.

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

When I did A Soldier’s Story, I was very young and green and thought I knew everything-now I know I know everything!

Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.

Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries.

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.

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

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.