All Quotes By Tag: Knowledge

“Doubt … is an illness that comes from knowledge and leads to madness.”

“Don’t fuck with an English major. They keep lots of useless crap trapped in their heads. Once in a while they let some of it out and it bites you square on the ass.”

“To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness.”

“Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.”

“To know that you do not know is the best.To think you know when you do not is a disease.Recognizing this disease as a disease is to be free of it.”

“Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker”

“A little Learning is a dangerous Thing.”

“It was better to know the worst than to wonder.”

“Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.”

“Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.”

“An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.”

“I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that Satan is a fiction. The Christian god may exist; so may the gods of Olympus, or of ancient Egypt, or of Babylon. But no one of these hypotheses is more probable than any other: they lie outside the region of even probable knowledge, and therefore there is no reason to consider any of them.”

“Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social enviroment. Most people are incapable of forming such opinions.”(Essay to Leo Baeck, 1953)”

“The surest way of concealing from others the boundaries of one’s own knowledge is not to overstep them.”

“People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care”