Knowing too much of your future is never a good thing.
Knowledge of the world means dissolving the solidity of the world.
Intuition does not in itself amount to knowledge, yet cannot be disregarded by philosophers and psychologists.
The intellect is a cleaver; it discerns and rifts its way into the secrets of things.
Knowledge always liberates.
Our knowledge is a torch of smoky pine That lights the pathway but one step ahead Across a void of mystery and dread.
It is a mystery that is hidden from me by reason that the emergency requiring the fathoming of it hath not in my life-days occurred, and so, not having no need to know this thing, I abide barren of the knowledge.
We should desire very few things passionately if we did but perfectly know the nature of the things we desire.
A great many things which in times of lesser knowledge we imagined to be superstitious or useless, prove today on examination to have been of immense value to mankind.
I am the last man in the world to say that the succor which is given us from America is not in itself something to rejoice at greatly. But I also say that I can see more in the knowledge that America is going to win a right to be at the conference table when the terms of peace are discussed. . . . It would have been a tragedy for mankind if America had not been there, and there with all her influence and power.
Knowledge is immensely powerful and immensely useful.
What a man does not understand, he does not possess.
All knowledge and understanding of the Universe was no more than playing with stones and shells on the seashore of the vast imponderable ocean of truth.
Whoever wishes to acquire a deep acquaintance with Nature must observe that there are analogies which connect whole branches of science in a parallel manner, and enable us to infer of one class of phenomena what we know of another. It has thus happened on several occasions that the discovery of an unsuspected analogy between two branches of knowledge has been the starting point for a rapid course of discovery.
Science is far from a perfect instrument of knowledge. It's just the best we have.
Knowledge is more important than space.
There is no philosophy which is not founded upon knowledge of the phenomena, but to get any profit from this knowledge it is absolutely necessary to be a mathematician.
A greater poverty than that caused by lack of money is the poverty of unawareness. Men and women go about the world unaware of the beauty, the goodness, the glories in it. Their souls are poor. It is better to have a poor pocketbook than to suffer from a poor soul.
The last to be overcome is death, and the knowledge of life is the knowledge of death.
Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned.
