Quotes About Knowledge

We live in an age of artificial scarcity, maintained by ignorance and fear.

No one can know the true grace of God who has not first known the fear of God.

Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing - it only hastens fools to rush in where angels fear to tread.

I fear explanations explanatory of things explained.

Carl did not want to believe. He wanted to know.

Fear paints pictures of ghosts and hangs them in the gallery of ignorance.

For a lot of actors, our biggest fear is that we're going to start talking about things we don't fully understand and sound like idiots.

The library is seen as a force for self improvement and the pursuit of knowledge. I fear that in many cases this is no longer true, if it ever was.

There are books of the same chemical composition as dynamite. The only difference is that a piece of dynamite explodes once, whereas a book explodes a thousand times.

Knowledge is the antidote to fear,- Knowledge, Use and Reason, with its higher aids.

Only the unknown frightens men. But once a man has faced the unknown, that terror becomes the known.

Fear dims when you learn things.

A scholar can hardly be better employed than in destroying a fear.

Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

I am never afraid of what I know.

We fear only what we haven't understood.

Truth is a torch but a tremendous one. That is why we hurry past it, shielding our eyes, indeed, in fear of getting burned.

The combination of fear and ignorance (two sides of the same coin) can be paralyzing.

My greatest fear is being somewhere without a book.

The only death I fear is dying ignorant.

Much of the fear of doing something wrong vanishes when we are knowledgeable about what we are doing.

There are no wrong books. What's wrong is the fear of them.

Fear is the start of wisdom.