Quotes About Wisdom

To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.

All we know of the truth is that the absolute truth, such as it is, is beyond our reach.

Science is simply common sense at its best.

The irony is that science has served only to show how small human knowledge is.

Science does not need mysticism and mysticism does not need science but man needs both.

What we know is not much. What we do not know is immense.

You cannot know the body by studying the finger, and you cannot understand the universe by learning one science.

If Einstein was so smart how come people only call you 'Einstein' when you do something really stupid ?

Nothing inspires more reverence and awe in me than an old man who knows how to change his mind.

Science is the discovery of how God does things.

Wonder is the seed of knowledge

God is most certainly not threatened by science; He made it all possible.

If you are searching for sacred knowledge and not just a palliative for your fears, then you will train yourself to be a good skeptic.

Shall I refuse my dinner because I do not fully understand the process of digestion?

Magick is the Science of understanding oneself and one's conditions. It is the Art of applying that understanding in action.

I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong.

It is not knowing, but the love of learning, that characterizes the scientific man.

Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you.

My definition of an educated man is the fellow who knows the right thing to do at the time it has to be done. You can be sincere and still be stupid.

And what greater might do we possess as human beings than our capacity to question and to learn?

My idea of an educated person is one who can converse on one subject for more than two minutes.

A religion contradicting science and a science contradicting religion are equally false.

A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences.

Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.