Quotes About Knowledge

I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White House — with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined here alone.

Cain: Then my father's God did well When he prohibited the fatal tree. Lucifer: But had done better in not planting it. But ignorance of evil doth not save From evil: it must still roll on the same, A part of all things.

He who physics himself poisons a fool.

A disease known is half cured.

We are dying to-day from ignorance, not from knowledge...

It isn't what you know that counts, it's what you think of in time.

To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.

To learn about eye protection, ask someone who has one.

My dad always taught me if I have my education, anything is possible.

Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know (Jeremiah 33:3).

I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so books I possess.

I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so books I possess.

We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.

The first responsibility of the Muslim is as teacher. That is his job, to teach. His first school, his first classroom is within the household. His first student is himself. He masters himself and then he begins to convey the knowledge that he has acquired to the family. The people who are closest to him.

Men are generally right in what they affirm and wrong in what they deny. What we deny is generally something that lies outside our experience, and about which we can therefore say nothing.

The ultimate security is your understanding of reality.

R&D is a special class of spending that often is equated, mistakenly, with investment spending. Investments presume knowledge, albeit imperfect, about future costs and returns. R&D represents an effort to gain a stake in future opportunities before anything is known about future costs and returns.

let us not teach / what we have learned badly / and not profited by

While we can learn or study techniques for almost anything we might want to accomplish, real understanding is not the mere accumulation of knowledge. Understanding cannot be realized by listening or reading about the realization of others. It must be achieved firsthand via substantive, direct perception in the moment.

Good books are the warehouses of ideals.

For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.

The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

The best teacher is not the one who knows most but the one who is most capable of reducing knowledge to that simple compound of the obvious and wonderful.

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents... some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new Dark Age.