Quotes About Knowledge

A little learning is a dangerous thing and a good deal of it is suffocating.

Where ignorance is not bliss, get wise!

Even the elders can give a number of helpful hints.

We have been better taught than the world. We cannot make the excuses of the world if we fail.

My father was a lawyer and to my best knowledge nobody in my family before had interest in science.

I would rather have a good education and no money, than to have a fortune and be ignorant.

We want Google to be the third half of your brain," says Google cofounder Sergey Brin.

the time will come, and come soon, in which we shall have a knowledge of God and mind that is not less certain than that of figures and numbers, and in which the invention of machines will be no more difficult than the construction of problems in geometry.

He is terribly rare. He is like Bach, who in his time had a great concentration of ability, essence, knowledge, a spread of music. Astaire has that same concentration of genius; there is so much of the dance in him that it has been distilled.

The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are blindly adopted; the second wilfully preferred.

We have wandered so far from fundamental spiritual knowledge in our culture that literally tens of millions of people—many of whom have long-term ties with the Christian church—have no clue how to even describe a true spiritual experience.

This problem is pervasive within the community of believers: Christians don't know the content of their faith and show little concern about their ignorance. This

Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.

We learn from history that we learn nothing from history.

He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

As a teacher of Greek I gave the intellectual man weapons against the common man. I now want to give the common man weapons against the intellectual man

No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot.

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.

Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character.

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

The right to know is like the right to live. It is fundamental and unconditional in its assumption that knowledge, like life, is a desirable thing.

Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.

He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.