Quotes About Knowledge

I know people who read and read, and for all the good it does them they might just as well cut bread-and-butter. They take to reading as better men take to drink. They fly through the shires of literature on a motor-car, their sole object being motion. They will tell you how many books they have read in a year.

The more knowledge you have, the more you're free to rely on your instincts.

Om te weten wat vrijheid inhoudt, moet je informeren wat de prijs is, die je geacht wordt ervoor te betalen.

Wir sind gewohnt dass die Menschen verhöhnen was sie nicht verstehen. -We are used to see that Man mocks what he never comprehends.

Sometimes when I'm in a bookstore or library, I am overwhelmed by all the things that I do not know. Then I am seized by a powerful desire to read all the books, one by one.

When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

The creation of wealth is certainly not to be despised, but in the long run the only human activities really worthwhile are the search for knowledge, and the creation of beauty. This is beyond argument, the only point of debate is which comes first.

all the world's religions cannot be right, and they know it. Sooner or later man has to learn the truth:

I'm a scientific expert; that means I know nothing about absolutely everything.

a well-stocked mind is safe from boredom.

He felt like a young student again, confronted with all the art and knowledge of mankind. The experience was both exhilarating and depressing; a whole universe lay at his fingertips, but the fraction of it he could explore in an entire lifetime was so negligible that he was sometimes overwhelmed with despair.

Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets.

Personally, I refuse to drive a car - I won't have anything to do with any kind of transportation in which I can't read.

It is vital to remember that information-- in the sense of raw data-- is not knowledge, that knowledge is not wisdom, and that wisdom is not foresight. But information is the first essential step to all of these.

Men knew better than they realized, when they placed the abode of the gods beyond the reach of gravity.

It was idle to speculate, to build pyramids of surmise on a foundation of ignorance.

It was the mark of a barbarian to destroy something one could not understand; but

It was the mark of a barbarian to destroy something one could not understand; but perhaps men were barbarians, beside the creatures who had made this thing.

who is better off, the child with a mentor who knows and tells everything or the one whose teacher helps the child find her own answers?

Do we use models to help us find the truth? Or do we know the truth first, and then develop the mathematics to explain it?

In my life I have found two things of priceless worth: learning and loving. Nothing else—not fame, not power, not achievement for its own sake—can possibly have the same lasting value.

Unlike the animals, who knew only the present, Man had acquired a past; and he was beginning to grope toward a future. He

He had no wish to face whatever lurked in the unknown darkness, just beyond the little circle of light cast by the lamp of Science.

for a well-stocked mind is safe from boredom.