Knowledge Quotes

"Knowing what you don't know is more useful than being brilliant" "The more you know, the less you need to say" "There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it" "Science which has become a great power in the last centuries will go on progressing and will strip away the veils covering the greatest problems of life" "Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever the universe has to teach us or somebody who says everything in this book must be considered the literal truth and never mind the fallibility of all the human beings involved?" "Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise." "I say there is no darkness but ignorance." "The only thing more expensive than education is ignorance" "We are all born ignorant but one must work hard to remain stupid" "All the arts and sciences have a mutual connection and dependance on each other" "The so-called learning society can be a new weapon of cultural imperialism; but in its liberatory form, education is the indispensable basis for human development." "It is the clash of judgments that produces the spark of truth." "Any meaningful understanding of our world must account for the processes of change over time." "I'm against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world" "No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals."