The wise are always impatient, for he that increases knowledge increases impatience of folly.
Wouldn't have no knowledge of wealth, without no knowledge of self.
Faith is not a blind thing; for faith begins with knowledge. It is not a speculative thing; for faith believes facts of which it is sure. It is not an unpractical, dreamy thing; for faith trusts, and stakes its destiny upon the truth of revelation.
My words have an origin. My deeds have a sovereign. Truly, because people do not understand this, they do not understand me.
It is the vice of scholars to suppose that there is no knowledge in the world but that of books.
Liberty of speech invites and provokes liberty to be used again, and so bringeth much to a man's knowledge.
Knowledge is not what is memorised. Knowledge is what benefits.
During the century after Newton, it was still possible for a man of unusual attainments to master all fields of scientific knowledge. But by 1800, this had become entirely impracticable.
In a spiral galaxy, the ratio of dark-to-light matter is about a factor of ten. That's probably a good number for the ratio of our ignorance-to-knowledge. We're out of kindergarten, but only in about third grade.
Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
Since I am a person who starts work without clear knowledge of a storyline, every single scene is a pivotal scene.
It might be said that all knowledge is linked to the essential forms of cruelty.
For, you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately, that Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible.
The fear of speculation, the ostensible rush from the theoretical to the practical, brings about the same shallowness in action that it does in knowledge. It is by studying a strictly theoretical philosophy that we become most acquainted with Ideas, and only Ideas provide action with energy and ethical significance.
We gather knowledge faster than we gather wisdom.
The Truth lies not in the Yes and not in the No, but in the knowledge and the beginning from which the Yes and the No arise.
In a world in which the total of human knowledge is doubling about every ten years, our security can rest only on our ability to learn
It isn't dying I'm afraid of, it isn't that at all; I know what it is to die, I've died already. It is the endless obliteration, the knowledge that there will never be anything else. That's what I can't stand, to try so hard and to end in nothing. You know what I mean, don't you?. . . I really loved to write.
These Gentlemen must be told, that they take too much upon themselves when they pretend to appoint how far and no farther Men shall go in their Searches, and to set bounds to other Mens Industry; as if they knew the Marks that God has placed to Knowledge.
Technology has outstripped our knowledge of self.