Quotes About Knowledge

But knowledge to their eyes her ample pageRich with the spoils of time did ne'er unroll;Chill penury repress'd their noble rage,And froze the genial current of the soul.

Where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise. - Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College

Not to relive it as it actually was, however, but as I would have it be, knowing all that I have since come to know. It is a dream of reaching back into the past and erasing some circumstance or making some small adjustment that will alter the course of our lives forever, and as time moves forward and mistake piles upon mistake, it becomes the deepest longing that we know.

This is why I urge you to dismiss every clever or subtle thought, no matter how holy or valuable. Cover it over with a thick cloud of forgetting because in this life only love can touch God as he is in himself, never knowledge. As long as we live in these mortal bodies the keenness of our intellect remains dulled by material limitations whenever it deals with

Only a scientific people can survive in a scientific future.

The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.

I would call that field of play--the place in which humans test their natural limits and often break them--science.

Ladies know what to guard against, because they read novels that tell them of these tricks…

Being smart spoils a lot of things, doesn't it?

The improver of natural science absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, scepticism is the highest of duties: blind faith the one unpardonable sin.

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.

The great tragedy of Science — the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

To a clear eye the smallest fact is a window through which the infinite may be seen.

Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto.

Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon with them, but they are the money of fools.

Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.

All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called "Facts". They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.

Scientia potentia est. Knowledge is power.

He that is to govern a whole Nation, must read in himselfe, not this, or that particular man; but Man-kind;

Apothegms form a short cut to much knowledge.

There's no escaping the Taoist adage, "Those who speak do not know, those who know do not speak.

All that was worth handing on died with them; the rest, they put into their books.8

The patina of age is a lesson that time is forever and that you, creature of an hour, would do well to know humility in the face of eternity.

Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know.