knowledge quotes

Religion and science are the two conjugated faces or phases of one and the same complete act of knowledge – the only one which can embrace the past and future of evolution and so contemplate, measure and fulfil them.

There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

We are wiser than we know.

Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated.

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.

Without stirring abroad, One can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window One can see the way of heaven. The further one goes The less one knows.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss.

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

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

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

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.

To know yet to think that one does not know is best; Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.

I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.

Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance.

You can know or not know how a car runs and still enjoy riding in a car.

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

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

The more extensive a man’s knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.

I don’t look at a man who’s expert in one area as a specialist. I look at him as a rookie in ten other areas.

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.

There are many things that I don’t understand.

It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.

To discover and know has always been a deep tendency of our nature. Can we not recognize it already in caveman?

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.

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.

I want parents to teach that academic intelligence is essential, but so is financial intelligence.

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.

The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.

I say there is no darkness but ignorance.

It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.

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

Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.

Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.

To understand a name you must be acquainted with the particular of which it is a name.

We’ve got to dumb America up again.

He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.

The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.

Too much of what is called ‚education‘ is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.

Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.

We as women, we have to understand that we know more, just even instinctively, than we think we do.

You can always tell when a man’s well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.

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.

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

I don’t watch it, but I know enough to comment on it.

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

The best books… are those that tell you what you know already.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

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

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

A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

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

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.

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

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.

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

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.

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

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.