Knowledge is like money: to be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value.
The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained.
To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.
Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.
There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge… observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.
Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with.
Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.
Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.
No man’s knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
Knowledge is the life of the mind.
We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.
Any knowledge that doesn’t lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.
Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.
There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.
Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.
Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.
To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.
When a man’s knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.
It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
