Quotes About Knowledge

You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.

I am not a genius, I am just curious. I ask many questions. and when the answer is simple, then God is answering.

I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.

Those who have the privilege to know have the duty to act.

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

Ego=1/Knowledge More the knowledge lesser the ego, lesser the knowledge more the ego.

The person who reads too much and uses his brain too little will fall into lazy habits of thinking..

The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.

There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.

Bear in mind that the wonderful things you learn in your schools are the work of many generations. All this is put in your hands as your inheritance in order that you may receive it, honor it, add to it, and one day faithfully hand it on to your children.

Knowledge exists in two forms - lifeless, stored in books, and alive, in the consciousness of men. The second form of existence is after all the essential one; the first, indispensable as it may be, occupies only an inferior position.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination. I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

once you stop learning you start dying

The pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, an almost fanatical love of justice and the desire for personal independence -- these are the features of the Jewish tradition which make me thank my stars that I belong to it.

The right to search for the truth implies also a duty; one must not conceal any part of what one has recognized to be the truth.

The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and science. He who knows it not and can no longer wonder, no longer feel amazement, is as good as dead, a snuffed-out candle.

Deux choses sont infinies : l'Univers et la bêtise humaine. Mais, en ce qui concerne l'Univers, je n'en ai pas encore acquis la certitude absolue.

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

Do you really believe that the moon isn't there when nobody looks?

Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think.

Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

I want to oppose the idea that the school has to teach directly that special knowledge and those accomplishments which one has to use later directly in life. The demands of life are much too manifold to let such a specialized training in school appear possible [...] The development of general ability for independent thinking and judgement should always be placed foremost.

I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the Earth might be killed, but enough men capable of thinking, and enough books, would be left to start again, and civilization could be restored.