knowledge quotes

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 haven’t gone out of my way to seek advice from people I don’t know.

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Libraries raised me.

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.

You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past – whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.

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

Grace is not part of consciousness; it is the amount of light in our souls, not knowledge nor reason.

The degree of one’s emotions varies inversely with one’s knowledge of the facts.

The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.

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

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.

Education is important because it prepares you for life.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination.

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.

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

An ignorant person is one who doesn’t know what you have just found out.

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

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

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

Men blaspheme what they do not know.

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

Our Creator expects His children everywhere to educate themselves.

I wish I had known when I was in the White House what I know now about the Third World.

When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds.

Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

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

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

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

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

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

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

I don’t claim to be knowledgeable about theology. Most of my knowledge comes out of my experience and the lessons in the Bible. Every Sunday I’m home I teach 45 minutes and we boiled them down to one page for the new book, ‚Through the Year with Jimmy Carter.‘

The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.

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.

Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.

America is becoming so educated that ignorance will be a novelty. I will belong to the select few.

If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own.

We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.

I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.

They know enough who know how to learn.

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

I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.

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.

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven’t and don’t.

Each piece, or part, of the whole of nature is always merely an approximation to the complete truth, or the complete truth so far as we know it. In fact, everything we know is only some kind of approximation because we know that we do not know all the laws as yet.

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

No one even knows one percent of the fabulous history of Man; but thanks to history, we know about occurrences that go beyond the limits of the imaginable.

I think that when we know that we actually do live in uncertainty, then we ought to admit it; it is of great value to realize that we do not know the answers to different questions. This attitude of mind – this attitude of uncertainty – is vital to the scientist, and it is this attitude of mind which the student must first acquire.

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

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

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

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

I don’t know what’s the matter with people: they don’t learn by understanding; they learn by some other way – by rote, or something. Their knowledge is so fragile!

Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.