975 quotes found
“Sit down before fact as a little child be prepared to give up every preconceived notion follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss nature leads or you shall learn nothing.”
“One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.”
“I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.”
“A man only understands what is akin to something already existing in himself.”
“Everybody gets so much common information all day long that they lose their common sense.”
“Anyone who stops learning is old whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.”
“The first problem for all of us men and women is not to learn but to unlearn.”
“We should live and learn but by the time we've learned it's too late to live.”
“The specialist is a man who fears the other subjects.”
“All that men really understand is confined to a very small compass to their daily affairs and experience to what they have an opportunity to know and motives to study or practise. The rest is af...”
“It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble it's what we know that ain't so.”
“In all affairs love religion politics or business it's a healthy idea now and then to hang a question mark on things you have long taken for granted.”
“Man is not weak - knowledge is more than equivalent to force. The master of mechanics laughs at strength.”
“To know that we know what we know and that we do not know what we do not know that is true knowledge.”
“The simplest questions are the hardest to answer.”
“They know enough who know how to learn.”
“Strange how much you've got to know Before you know how little you know.”
“I take all knowledge to be my province.”
“To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.”
“For knowledge too is itself a power.”
