Quotes on Knowledge

When you compare yourself with others in matters of wealth, position, and health, you should look at people less favoured than yourself. When you compare yourself with others in matters of religion, knowledge and virtue, look at people who are better than yourself.

The amount of knowledge which we can justify from evidence directly available to us can never be large. The overwhelming proportion of our factual beliefs continue therefore to be held at second hand through trusting others, and in the great majority of cases our trust is placed in the authority of comparatively few people of widely acknowledged standing.

At the simplest level, economics can better show us the consequences of our actions. Less simple are cases in which we don't have the knowledge to predict the full consequences. Global warming and climate change are examples.

We know nothing at all. All our knowledge is but the knowledge of schoolchildren. The real nature of things we shall never know.

Mathematics is a more powerful instrument of knowledge than any other that has been bequeathed to us by human agency.

Knowledge is not simply another commodity. On the contrary. Knowledge is never used up. It increases by diffusion and grows by dispersion.

Kids all want to look cool, as if knowledge is a great burden, but they're always looking around. They remember.

Those who know the TRUTH are not equal to those who love it.

Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can exist apart from religious principle.

The growth of our knowledge is the result of a process closely resembling what Darwin called 'natural selection'; that is, the natural selection of hypotheses: our knowledge consists, at every moment, of those hypotheses which have shown their (comparative) fitness by surviving so far in their struggle for existence, a competitive struggle which eliminates those hypotheses which are unfit.

Exact knowledge is the enemy of vitalism.

Ipsa scientia potestas est. (Knowledge itself is power.)

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

The statistical probability that organic structures and the most precisely harmonized reactions that typify living organisms would be generated by accident, is zero.

I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss.

If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.

But now with the living conditions deteriorating, and with the sure knowledge that we are slated for destruction, we have been transformed into an implacable army of liberation.

The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others.

Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man.

We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

A Man of Knowledge like a rich Soil, feeds If not a world of Corn, a world of Weeds.