Knowledge - Quotes
All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is exclusively my own.
We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power.
Necessity is the mother of invention, it is true, but its father is creativity, and knowledge is the midwife.
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
Knowledge is always better - safer - in the long run than ignorance, no matter how dismayed one may feel when one first understands certain facts.
There`s always someone who collects knowledge, not because of a love of the stuff but in the same way that a magpie collects glitter or a caddis fly collects little bits of twigs and rock.
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
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.
Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control. Science deals mainly with facts; religion deals mainly with values. The two are not rivals. They are complementary.
Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument an exchange of ignorance.
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
Knowledge comes by eyes always open and working hands; and there is no knowledge that is not power.
Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.