Knowledge
Thomas Fuller on Facts
“Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get them, get them right, or they will get you wrong.”
Samuel Johnson on Knowledge
“Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.”
Chinese Proverb on Wisdom
“He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.”
Alec Bourne on Education
“It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.”
Galileo Galilei on Science
“All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.”
Isaac Newton on Science
“I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light.”
Frank Herbert on Knowledge
“The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.”
Socrates on Wisdom
“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
Galileo Galilei on Ignorance
“I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.”
James Thurber on Questions
“It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.”
Albert Einstein on Imagination
“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.”
Josh Billings on Experience
“There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.”
Albert Einstein on Science
“The important thing is not to stop questioning.”
Anatole France on Education
“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 know and what you don’t.“
Thomas Carlyle on Education
“What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.”
Will Rogers on Ignorance
“You know everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.”
Oscar Wilde on Knowledge
“There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.”
Samuel Johnson on Integrity & Knowledge
“Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.”
Nikola Tesla on Science
“Today’s scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.”
Will Durant on Education
“Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.“
Cullen Hightower on Knowledge
“Saying what we think gives us a wider conversational range than saying what we know.”
Louis Pasteur on Education
“Fortune favors the prepared mind.”
Enrico Fermi on Knowledge
“It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.”
Charles Caleb Colton Cynical Quote
“If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.”
Neil Armstrong on Mystery
“Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand.”