975 quotes found
“Knowledge, like air, is vital to life. Like air, no one should be denied it.”
“Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.”
“I definitely learned a lesson this time. I know that I can be broken. I am not as tough as I thought. I see it now. At this point, it's the only thing good that came out of all of this. I know myse...”
“How little we know of what there is to know. I wish that I were going to live a long time instead of going to die today because I have learned much about life in these four days; more, I think than...”
“I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think”
“Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy.”
“To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.”
“All men by nature desire knowledge.”
“All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge.”
“And last are the few whose delight is in meditation and understanding; who yearn not for goods, nor for victory, but for knowledge; who leave both market and battlefield to lose themselves in the q...”
“O how incomprehensible everything was, and actually sad, although it was also beautiful. One knew nothing. One lived and ran about the earth and rode through forests, and certain things looked so c...”
“Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.”
“I will tell you why I became a philosopher. I became a philosopher because I wanted to be able to talk about many, many things, ideally with knowledge, but sometimes not quite the amount of knowled...”
“Socrates: This man, on one hand, believes that he knows something, while not knowing [anything]. On the other hand, I equally ignorant do not believe [that I know anything].”
“The positivists have a simple solution: the world must be divided into that which we can say clearly and the rest, which we had better pass over in silence. But can anyone conceive of a more pointl...”
“God can make a cow out of a tree, but has He ever done so? Therefore show some reason why a thing is so, or cease to hold that it is so.”
“Those who are enslaved to their sects are not merely devoid of all sound knowledge, but they will not even stop to learn!”
“Now that physics is proving the intelligence of the universe what are we to do about the stupidity of mankind? I include myself. I know that the earth is not flat but my feet are. I know that space...”
“From the mouths of the innocents flows truth.”
“Nothing is generous. New knowledge is a valuable commodity. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we are.”
