Quotes About Knowledge

To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant. —AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT.

Teaching English literature would have seemed to us like teaching a hungry man the way to his mouth when he had a feast before him. Almost

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All my life I have made an intensive study of dogs. Thirty years ago I knew everything about them that could be known, and much more. After three decades of much closer study of them and their ways, I find to my dismay that I know almost nothing at all about them. I have scarcely scratched the surface. That is not false modesty. It is sickeningly true. The sum total of my canine knowledge and experience and observation is this: Anything can happen; and usually it does.

Philosophy is a kind of journey, ever learning yet never arriving at the ideal perfection of truth.

Thus there is an Absolute, in the matters of Intelligence and of Faith. The Supreme Reason has not left the gleams of the human understanding to vacillate by hazard. There is an incontestable verity, there is an infallible method of knowing this verity, and by the knowledge of it, those who accept it as a rule may give their will a sovereign power that will make them masters of inferior things and of all errant spirits that is to say, will make them the Arbiters and Kings of the World.

As we acquire more knowldege, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious.

Reverence for life brings us into a spiritual relation with the world which is independent of all knowledge of the universe.

To the question whether I am a pessimist or an optimist, I answer that my knowledge is pessimistic, but my willing and hoping are optimistic.

As we acquire knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious.

Let us rejoice in the truth, wherever we find its lamp burning.

As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious.

Der unnatürliche Zustand, daß der Mensch nicht an eine von ihm selber erkannte Wahrheit glaubt, dauert an und wirkt sich aus. Die Stadt der Wahrheit kann nicht auf dem Sumpfboden des Skeptizismus erbaut werden.

The the question whether I am a pessimist or an optimist, I answer that my knowledge is pessimistic, but my willing and hope are optimistic.

being in a position to know and nevertheless shunning knowledge creates direct responsibility for the consequences...

Knowledge is a sacred cow, and my problem will be how we can milk her while keeping clear of her horns.

This celebration here tells me that this work is not hopeless. I thank you for this teaching with all my heart and lift my glass to human solidarity, to the ultimate victory of knowledge, peace, good-will and understanding.

I'm glad I see with my eyes and not the pages I've read.

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Access to information and freedom of access to it may seem like a fundamental right but there are many people who think, rightly or wrongly, it is for your own good that it is hidden.

Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know.

I wanted to live among books.

In my fool hardy youth, when my friends were dreaming of heroic deeds in the realms of engineering and law, finance and national politics, I dreamt of becoming a librarian.

Ultimately, the number of books always exceeds the space they are granted.