Quotes About Wisdom

If one does not reflect, one thinks oneself master of everything; but when one does reflect, one realizes that one is master of nothing.

Can it really be said that before the day of our pretentious science, humanity was composed solely of imbeciles and the superstitious?

When I look upon seamen, men of science and philosophers, man is the wisest of all beings; when I look upon priests and prophets nothing is as contemptible as man.

There is no knowledge and science like pondering and thought; and there is no prosperity and advancement like knowledge and science.

Science is the most reliable guide in life.

Pure logical thinking cannot yield us any knowledge of the empirical world. All knowledge of reality starts from experience and ends in it.

Sometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best substitute for actually having the answer.

Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all Science

It is not good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

Mathematics is not about numbers, equations, computations, or algorithms: it is about understanding.

I do not know if I am mistaken, but it seems that one can obtain more truths, important to Humanity, from Chemistry than from any other Science.

Doubt everything or believe everything: these are two equally convenient strategies. With either we dispense with the need for reflection.

Most papers in computer science describe how their author learned what someone else already knew.

Mathematical Knowledge adds a manly Vigour to the Mind, frees it from Prejudice, Credulity, and Superstition.

When things get too complicated, it sometimes makes sense to stop and wonder: Have I asked the right question?

Intelligence is not a science.

It would be better for us to have some doubts in an honest pursuit of truth, than it would be for us to be certain about something that was not true.

Nothing can be believed unless it is first understood; and that for any one to preach to others that which either he has not understood nor they have understood is absurd.

Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities-that's training or instruction-but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed.

The more you know, the less sure you are.

Our true mentor in life is science.

The foolish reject what they see, not what they think; the wise reject what they think, not what they see.

O telescope, instrument of much knowledge, more precious than any sceptre!

Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.