Quotes on “knowledge”

I don't understand a thing about this world: about people, and why they do the things they do. The more I find out, the more I uncover, the more I know, the less I understand.

Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent.

The hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat.

To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.

Any fool can know. The point is to understand.

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.

Knowledge, like air, is vital to life. Like air, no one should be denied it.