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The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.
Elbert Hubbard1856–1915
- Knowledge
The secret of education is respecting the pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.
Charles Darwin1809–1882The Descent of Man (1871) volume I, “Introduction”, p. 3
- Knowledge
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
Albert Einstein1879–1955Essay to Leo Baeck (1953), Ideas and Opinions
- Knowledge
- Truth & Lies
The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
Bertrand Russell1872–1970What I Believe (1925)
Education, n. That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.
Ambrose Bierce1842–1914The Devil’s Dictionary (1911)
Erudition, n. Dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.
Ambrose Bierce1842–1914The Devil’s Dictionary (1911)
- Knowledge
That which is desirable on its own account and for the sake of knowing it is more of the nature of wisdom than that which is desirable on account of its results.
Aristotle384–322 BCMetaphysics, 982a16, Complete Works, vol. 2, p. 1554
- Knowledge
- Wisdom
Knowledge, that tendeth but to satisfaction, is but as a courtesan, which is for pleasure, and not for fruit or generation.
Francis Bacon1561–1626Valerius Terminus: Of the Interpretation of Nature (ca. 1603), in Works, Vol. 1, p. 83; The Works of Francis Bacon (1819), Vol. 2, p. 133
- Knowledge
There is the love of knowing without the love of learning; the beclouding here leads to dissipation of mind.
Confucius551–479 BCAnalects, Chapter XVII, Book XVII, Chapter VIII.
- Knowledge
We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that the savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.
Mark Twain1835–1910A Tramp Abroad (1880)
- Knowledge
An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.
James A. Michener1907–1997Space (1982)
- History
- Knowledge
What are our schools for if not for indoctrination against communism?
Richard Nixon1913–1994Speech before a meeting of San Diego educators during the 1962 gubernatorial election.
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
Samuel Johnson1709–1784The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (1759), Ch. XLI
- Character
- Knowledge
Example is always more efficacious than precept.
Samuel Johnson1709–1784The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (1759), Ch. XXX
- Leadership