Quotes on “knowledge”

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

Doctor Who: You want weapons? We're in a library. Books are the best weapon in the world. This room's the greatest arsenal we could have. Arm yourself!(from Tooth and Claw in Season 2)

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

Give me the storm and tempest of thought and action, rather than the dead calm of ignorance and faith! Banish me from Eden when you will; but first let me eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge!

Knowing too much of your future is never a good thing.

To sustain the belief that there is no God, atheism has to demonstrate infinite knowledge, which is tantamount to saying, I have infinite knowledge that there is no being in existence with infinite knowledge

We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation -rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.

From the mouths of the innocents flows truth.

Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

I thought to myself: I am wiser than this man; neither of us probably knows anything that is really good, but he thinks he has knowledge, when he has not, while I, having no knowledge, do not think I have.

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

Knowledge is a better weapon than a sword.

It takes a very long time to become young.

nothing that is worth knowing can be taught

To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.

She said we all not only could know everything. We do. We just tell ourselves we don't to make it all bearable.

I know that the molecules in my body are traceable to phenomena in the cosmos. That makes me want to grab people on the street and say: ‘Have you HEARD THIS?

... there is no shame in not knowing. The problem arises when irrational thought and attendant behavior fill the vacuum left by ignorance.