Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.
The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.
The more knowledge you’ve got, the more understanding you have, the better you are able to implement and pass it on to others.
I’ve been a cook all my life, but I am still learning to be a good chef. I’m always learning new techniques and improving beyond my own knowledge because there is always something new to learn and new horizons to discover.
If you know you are on the right track, if you have this inner knowledge, then nobody can turn you off… no matter what they say.
The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.
The deductive method is the mode of using knowledge, and the inductive method the mode of acquiring it.
Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith the one unpardonable sin.
The accumulation of cultural capital – the acquisition of knowledge – is the key to social mobility.
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there’s no help in the truth.
Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.
Knowledge is not a guarantee of good political behavior, but ignorance is a virtual guarantee of bad behavior.
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
I don’t know what is better than the work that is given to the actor – to teach the human heart the knowledge of itself.
Patriotism is voluntary. It is a feeling of loyalty and allegiance that is the result of knowledge and belief. A patriot shows their their patriotism through their actions, by their choice.
The only source of knowledge is experience.
Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.
The more knowledge you have, the greater will be your fear of Allah.
Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.
Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.
