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When hurt feelings and bruised egos are more important than the unfettered life of the mind, the universities have committed suicide.
Camille Pagliaborn 1947Vamps and Tramps (1994), “No Law in the Arena: A Pagan Theory of Sexuality”, p. 51
Science cannot be stopped. Man will gather knowledge no matter what the consequences – and we cannot predict what they will be.
Linus Pauling1901–1994Lecture at Yale University, “Chemical Achievement and Hope for the Future.” (October 1947) Published in Science in Progress. Sixth Series. Ed. George A. Baitsell. 100-21, (1949).
- Knowledge
- Science
A man doesn’t know what he knows until he knows what he doesn’t know.
Laurence J. Peter1919–1990
Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.
Laurence J. Peter1919–1990
Apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there?
Harold Pinter1930–2008The Homecoming (1965), act 2, sc. 1
- Comedy
- Knowledge
The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.
Plato429–349 BCThe Republic (375 BC), Republic, Book IV, 425BIn context
Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.
Plato429–349 BC
- Good & Evil
Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.
Plato429–349 BCThe Republic (375 BC), Republic, Book VII, 536eIn context
- Knowledge
Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul
Plato429–349 BCThe Republic (c. 375 BC), Book IIIIn context
- Music
Indeed, what is there that does not appear marvelous when it comes to our knowledge for the first time? How many things, too, are looked upon as quite impossible until they have actually been effected?
Pliny the Elder20–79Naturalis Historia, Book VII, sec. 6.
- Knowledge
Just as the twig is bent, the tree’s inclined.
Alexander Pope1688–1744Moral Essays (1731–1735), Epistle I, To Lord Cobham (1734), line 150
A little Learning is a dang’rous thing;
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring:
There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,
And drinking largely sobers us again.
Alexander Pope1688–1744An Essay on Criticism (1711)In context
- Knowledge
The more we learn about the world, and the deeper our learning, the more conscious, specific, and articulate will be our knowledge of what we do not know, our knowledge of our ignorance.
Karl Popper1902–1994Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge (1963)
- Knowledge
Experts often possess more data than judgment.
Colin Powell1937–2021
- Wisdom
Errors of knowledge are not breaches of morality; no proper moral code can demand infallibility or omniscience.
Ayn Rand1905–1982The Virtue of Selfishness (1964)
- Knowledge
- Morality