Quotes about Knowledge
The combination of fear and ignorance (two sides of the same coin) can be paralyzing.
— Seth Godin
Ignorance is the father of all fear.
— Herman Melville
The highest knowledge is to know that we are surrounded by mystery. Neither knowledge nor hope for the future can be the pivot of our life or determine its direction. It is intended to be solely determined by our allowing ourselves to be gripped by the ethical God, who reveals Himself in us, and by our yielding our will to His.
— Albert Schweitzer
We learn not in the school, but in life.
— Seneca
The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
— Albert Einstein
Those of us we have been true readers all our life fully realize the enormous extension of our being which we owe to authors.
— CS Lewis
Without the way , there is no going; without the truth, there is no knowing; without the life, there is no living.
— Thomas a Kempis
Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.
— Oscar Wilde
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.
— Mark Twain
People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box.
— Thomas Henry Huxley
It is a disgrace to let ignorance and vanity do more with us than prudence and principle.
— Marcus Aurelius