Quotes About Knowledge

The scholar whose knowledge is made use of and benefited from, is worthier and more virtuous than seventy thousand worshippers and adorers.

Knowledge and science is the fruit of paradise; in times of threat it is one's ally, in exile it keeps one company, and in solitude it is one's intimate friend and companion.

There is no pain worse than ignorance and lack of intellegence.

Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.

The need to be right -- the sign of a vulgar mind.

The truth, as the light, makes blind.

But, in the name of the experimental method and out of our poor knowledge, are we really entitled to claim that everything happens by chance, to the exclusion of all other possibilities?

Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without education. Education enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

In light of knowledge attained, the happy achievement seems almost a matter of course, and any intelligent student can grasp it without too much trouble. But the years of anxious searching in the dark, with their intense longing, their alterations of confidence and exhaustion and the final emergence into the light -- only those who have experienced it can understand it

If God has created the world, his primary worry was certainly not to make its understanding easy for us

It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

You teach me baseball and I'll teach you relativity...No we must not You will learn about relativity faster than I learn baseball

The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.

To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their most primitive forms—this knowledge, this feeling, is at the center of all true religiousness. In this sense, and in this sense only, I belong in the ranks of devoutly religious men.

The man of science is a poor philosopher.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. So is a lot.

When I study philosophical works I feel I am swallowing something which I don't have in my mouth.

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.