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As knowledge spreads, wealth spreads. To diffuse knowledge is to diffuse wealth. To give all an equal chance to acquire knowledge is the best and surest way to give all an equal chance to acquire property.
Rutherford B. Hayes1822–1893Diary (15 May 1878)
- Money
Prejudice is the child of ignorance…
William Hazlitt1778–1830Men and Manners: Sketches and Essays (1852), “On Prejudice”
An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject, and how to avoid them.
Werner Heisenberg1901–1976Der Teil und das Ganze. Gespräche im Umkreis der Atomphysik (1969)
Whenever we proceed from the known into the unknown we may hope to understand, but we may have to learn at the same time a new meaning of the word “understanding.”
Werner Heisenberg1901–1976Physics and Philosophy (1958)
The existing scientific concepts cover always only a very limited part of reality, and the other part that has not yet been understood is infinite.
Werner Heisenberg1901–1976Physics and Philosophy (1958)
- Science
Dogs, also, bark at what they do not know.
Heraclitus535–470 BCFragment 97
- Animals
The majority of people have no understanding of the things with which they daily meet, nor, when instructed, do they have any right knowledge of them, although to themselves they seem to have.
Heraclitus535–470 BCSource: Clement, Stromates, II, 8, 1
Wisdom is not communicable. The wisdom which a wise man tries to communicate always sounds foolish… Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom.
Hermann Hesse1877–1962Siddhartha (1922)
- Wisdom
I have never lost the feeling of contradiction that lies behind all knowledge.
Hermann Hesse1877–1962Gertrude (1910)
It is always more difficult to fight against faith than against knowledge.
Adolf Hitler1889–1945
- Faith
Now, if the ignorance of nature gave birth to Gods, the knowledge of nature is calculated to destroy them.
Baron d'Holbach1723–1789Le Système de la nature (The System of Nature, 1770)
- Anti-God
The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.
Elbert Hubbard1856–1915
- Education
There are conditions worse than being unable to see, and that is imagining one sees.
L. Ron Hubbard1911–1986Lecture, Scientology and Effective Knowledge (July 15, 1957).
Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose. It is a seeking that he who wishes may know the cosmic secrets of the world and they that dwell therein.
Zora Neale Hurston1891–1960Dust Tracks on a Road (1942), Ch. 10: Research, p. 143
- Science
He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.
Thomas Jefferson1743–1826Letter to Isaac McPherson (1813)
- Ideas