Quotes About Reflection

[Misquotation; not by Einstein.] If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker. [Apparently remorseful for his role in the development of the atom bomb.]

With knowledge comes more doubt.

It's a dangerous thing to think we know everything.

Knowledge is not a loose-leaf notebook of facts. Above all, it is a responsibility for the integrity of what we are, primarily of what we are as ethical creatures.

Knowledge isn't always good for you.

The power of the past does not depend on our knowledge of it.

I have met a thousand scamps; but I never met one who considered himself so. Self-knowledge isn't so common.

It is by no means certain that we advance our philosophical quest by reading Plato or Aristotle. It may increase our knowledge of history but not of the world.

Every person, on coming to the knowledge of himself, is not only urged to seek God, but is also led as by the hand to find Him.

The pressed oil of words can blaze up into music, into image, into the heart and mind's knowledge. The lit and shadowed places within us can be warmed.

Knowledge will appear in turn the merest ignorance to those who come after us. Yet it is not to be despised, since by it we reach up groping fingers to touch the hem of the garment of the Most High.

The more I learn about stuff the more conscious I become of grave gaps in my knowledge.

I do not know is a phrase which becomes us.

This precept descended from Heaven: know thyself.

Self knowledge is best learned not by contemplation, but by action.

Poems come from incomplete knowledge.

We think by feeling. What is there to know?

To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.

Knowledge without devotion is like a stone in water.

Knowledge is but folly unless it is guided by grace.

The downside of aging is a slower metabolism and achy joints.The upside is a knowledge of self that prevents one from behaving like a baboon.

I have this tendency to take a little bit of questionable knowledge and riff on it.

We are unknown to ourselves, we men of knowledge--and with good reason. We have never sought ourselves--how could it happen that we should ever find ourselves?

The life which is unexamined is not worth living.