Quotes About Knowledge

If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.

If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.

Those who think they know it all have no way of finding out they don't..

We must learn all that we can about God, so that we may love him, and keep our love alive, and grow in love for him.

Some mathematician has said pleasure lies not in discovering truth, but in seeking it.

Busy thyself with the secrets of wisdom and knowledge, thus thou shalt overcome the fear of the morrow in thee.

A young khokhem told his grandmother that he was going to become a doctor of philosophy. The bubbe smiled proudly: "Wonderful. But what kind of disease is 'philosophy'?

One cannot refute what one has not thoroughly understood.

Life is too short to live with any but the greatest books.

There is a remarkable sentence of Pascal according to which we know too little to be dogmatists and too much to be skeptics, which expresses beautifully what Plato conveys through his dialogues.

Three stages of truth for scientists: (1) It's not true. (2) If it is true, it's not very important. (3) We knew it all along.

The Brahmins say that in their books there are many predictions of times in which it will rain. But press those books as strongly as you can, you can not get out of them a drop of water. So you can not get out of all the books that contain the best precepts the smallest good deed.

We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.

Everything I know, I know because of love.

Something magical has happened to me: like a dream when one feels frightened and creepy, and suddenly wakes up to the knowledge that no such terrors exist. I have wakened up.

Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it.

Everything intelligent is so boring.

Instead of going to Paris to attend lectures, go to the public library, and you won't come out for twenty years, if you really wish to learn.

Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.

All we can know is that we know nothing. And that's the height of human wisdom.

And not only the pride of intellect, but the stupidity of intellect. And, above all, the dishonesty, yes, the dishonesty of intellect. Yes, indeed, the dishonesty and trickery of intellect.

To educate the peasantry, three things are needed: schools, schools and schools.

The pleasure lies not in discovering truth, but in searching for it.

It's different for you and me. You study, you become enlightened; I study, I become confused.