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Can you avoid knowledge? You cannot! Can you avoid technology? You cannot! Things are going to go ahead in spite of ethics, in spite of your personal beliefs, in spite of everything.

The real scholar learns how to evolve the unknown from the known, and draws near the master.

When intelligent and sensible people despise knowledge in their old age, it is only because they have asked too much of it and of themselves.

With the growth of knowledge our ideas must from time to time be organized afresh. The change takes place usually in accordance with new maxims as they arise, but it always remains provisional.

Knowledge is a collective enterprise. Without it understanding is impossible. Ignorance is too often a murderous vulnerability.

Few can tell what they know without also showing what they do not know.

The history of knowledge is a great fugue in which the voices of the nations one after the other emerge.

If there is anything for which I would go back to childhood, and live this weary life over again, it is for the burning, exalting, transporting thrill and ecstasy with which the young faculties hold their earliest communion with knowledge.

What we know is to what we do not know, as a grain of sand is to the beach.

Knowledge is but an instrument, which the profligate and the flagitious may use as well as the brave and the just.

As each generation comes into the world devoid of knowledge, its first duty is to obtain possession of the stores already amassed. It must overtake its predecessors before it can pass by them.

Omniscience ... is an excellent quality in God, but suspect in everyone else.

You must know all there is to know in your particular field and keep on the alert for new knowledge. The least difference in knowledge between you and another man may spell his success and your failure.

I ain't one of those who believe that a half knowledge of a subject is useless, but it has been my experience that when a fellow has that half knowledge he finds it's the other half which would really come in handy.

When the panting and thirsting soul first drinks the delicious waters of truth, when the moral and intellectual tastes and desires first seize the fragrant fruits that flourish in the garden of knowledge, then does the child catch a glimpse and foretaste of heaven.

We ought to be ten times as hungry for knowledge as for food for the body.

Knowledge is a mimic creation.

In the world we live in, what we know and what we don't know are like Siamese twins, inseparable, existing in a state of confusion.

What you know is a club for yourself, and what you don't know is a meat-ax for the other fellow.

There is but a slight difference between the man who may be said to know nothing and him who thinks he knows everything.

In the case of various kinds of knowledge, we find that what in former days occupied the energies of men of mature mental ability sinks to the level of information, exercises, and even pastimes for children; and in this educational progress we can see the history of the world's culture delineated in faint outline.