Quotes About Wisdom

There have been great men with little of what we call education. There have been many small men with a great deal of learning. There has never been a great people who did not possess great learning.

When science is learned in love, and its powers are wielded by love, they will appear the supplements and continuations of the material creation.

I'm basically a dinosaur. I don't use e-mail. But I do recognize the importance of science and the resulting possibilities.

There seems scarcely any limit to what could be done in the way of producing a good world, if only men would use science wisely.

We are a scientific civilization. That means a civilization in which knowledge and its integrity are crucial. Science is only a Latin word for knowledge ... Knowledge is our destiny.

All knowledge has an ultimate goal. Knowledge for the sake of knowledge is, say what you will, nothing but a dismal begging of the question.

Every man will be a poet if he can; otherwise a philosopher or man of science. This proves the superiority of the poet.

That knowledge which stops at what it does not know, is the highest knowledge.

How index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tail!

In science, the old men are usually wrong. But in politics, the old men are wise, counsel caution, and in the end are often right.

The valuable attributes of research men are conscious ignorance and active curiosity.

Eventually we will all wither and die in the wasteland of logic and science.

Modern science has its value in terms of utility, but it cannot open up existence to human experience.

We achieve more than we know. We know more than we understand. We understand more than we can explain.

Everything in science depends on what one calls an aperçu, on becoming aware of what is at the bottom of the phenomena. Such becoming aware is infinitely fertile.

Science tells us what we can know, but what we can know is little, and if we forget how much we cannot know we become insensitive to many things of great importance.

The acquirements of science maybe termed the armor of the mind.

The worst, the most difficult thing I think is that the more you become intrigued by science and the information is out there, the more you are aware of the paucity of your own knowledge.

Of power does Man possess no particle: Of knowledge-just so much as show that still It ends in ignorance on every side.

-ev'n with us the breath Of Science dims the mirror of our joy.

Such philosophy as shall not vanish in the fume of subtile, sublime, or delectable speculation but shall be operative to the endowment and betterment of man's life.

Books to judicious compilers, are useful; to particular arts and professions, they are absolutely necessary; to men of real science, they are tools: but more are tools to them.

...neither is it possible to discover the more remote and deeper parts of any science, if you stand but upon the level of the same science, and ascend not to a higher science.

They are the best physicians, who being great in learning most incline to the traditions of experience, or being distinguished in practice do not reflect the methods and generalities of art.