Quotes About Knowledge

That's the trouble with you readers. You know all the plots.

Arrogance is a great obstruction to wisdom.

Of all evil things the least quantity is to be borne, but of learning and knowledge, the more a man hath, the better he can bear it.

The real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions.

The one real object of education is to have a man in the condition of continually asking questions.

As I looked outside I noticed a street light crowded by moths. But as soon as that light went off, the moths fled in search of light (they seemed inseparable). Apparently, insects (moths) that are attracted to light know something we don't ~ go figure.

If we probe what's behind our assumptions, what we find isn't knowledge or wisdom. It's fear. We're afraid that other people's ideas will make us look less than. We're afraid that if we make a change, a product won't come in on time.

Fear in the absence of knowledge breeds irrationality. We should always seek knowledge, even in the face of fear.

Thus, the standard library will serve as both a tool and as a teacher.

I'm no expert on American politics.

Things absolutely necessary to healthy existence were necessarily known from the earliest ages, unless indeed we imagine that the primeval man was created in a state of physical and moral disease, that he might grope and blunder his way into health, as some theorists assert that he groped and blundered his way from a tiger into a moral being, and from a monkey into a man.

It was so easy to be wise in the explanation of an experience one has not personally witnessed.

In ancient days, tradition says, When knowledge was much stinted— When few could teach and fewer preach, And books were not yet printed— What wise men thought, by prudence taught, They pithily expounded; And proverbs sage, from age to age, In every mouth abounded. O Blessings on the men of yore, Whom wisdom thus augmented, And left a store of easy lore For human use invented.

Ask me my three main priorities for government, and I tell you: education, education and education.

Reason is the slow and torturous method by which those who do not know the truth discover it.

Curiosity is only vanity. Most frequently we wish not to know, but to talk. We would not take a sea voyage for the sole pleasure of seeing without hope of ever telling.

We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.

The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason

Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.

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

Men blaspheme what they do not know.

We know the truth, not only by the reason, but by the heart.

Physical science will not console me for the ignorance of morality in the time of affliction.

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.