Quotes about Knowledge
Examinations are formidable things, even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
It has become almost a cliché to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.
Doubt everything or believe everything: these are two equally convenient strategies. With either we dispense with the need for reflection.
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.
The more civilized we become, the more relatively ignorant must each individual be of the facts on which the working of his civilization depends.