knowledge quotes

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

The wisest have the most authority.

There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating – people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Knowledge is true opinion.

The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one.

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

I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

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

And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.

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

A person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read.

We have to abandon the idea that schooling is something restricted to youth. How can it be, in a world where half the things a man knows at 20 are no longer true at 40 – and half the things he knows at 40 hadn’t been discovered when he was 20?

An empowered organisation is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organisational success.

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

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.‘

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

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

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.

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.

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

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

Doubt grows with knowledge.

I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.

The natural desire of good men is knowledge.

No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.

Between the ages of fifteen and twenty-four, I must have read a whole library.

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

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.

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

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.

The proper study of mankind is books.

Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.

One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.

We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free; but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free.

Intuition and concepts constitute… the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.

Science is increasingly answering questions that used to be the province of religion.

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

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.

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

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know – and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.

What religion a man holds, to what race he belongs, these things are not important; the really important thing is this knowledge: the knowledge of God’s plan for men. For God has a plan, and that plan is evolution.

The more you know the less you need to say.

The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.

To know the laws is not to memorize their letter but to grasp their full force and meaning.

Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.

All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.

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.

The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.