Quotes About Knowledge

If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.

A man is never astonished that he doesn't know what another does, but he is surprised at the gross ignorance of the other in not knowing what he does.

Science is a cemetery of dead ideas

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than the animals that know nothing

I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real sentences. But our innocence goes awfully deep, and our discreditable secret is that we don't know anything at all, and our horrid inner secret is that we don't care that we don't.

Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control.

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

The central difficulty lies in the fact that all of the sciences have made such great progress during the last century that they have got quite beyond the reach of man

If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn't.

One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike - and yet it is the most precious thing we have

So long as the mother, Ignorance, lives, it is not safe for Science, the offspring, to divulge the hidden cause of things

Science is the belief in the ignorance of the experts

Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.

If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.

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

My ignorance of science is such that if anyone mentioned copper nitrate I should think he was talking about policemen's overtime.

Truth in science can be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one.

There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods; and that is, the sincere desire to find out the truth, whatever it may be.

Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions.

Philosophy is the science which considers truth

I like to browse in occult bookshops if for no other reason than to refresh my commitment to science.

What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!