Knowledge Quotes

"There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true." "We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom." "You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them." "Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding" "Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand" "Once you learn to read you will be forever free" "Ignorance is always afraid of change" "Read in order to live" "Libraries have always seemed to me like the richest places in the world" "Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry" "Learning is like chasing after the horizon there is no end." "To furnish the means of acquiring knowledge is the greatest benefit that can be conferred upon mankind" "The paradox of technology is that it makes what we know obsolete, while creating brand new uncertainties" "Nothing is in the mind which was not first in the senses, except the mind itself." "No man was ever wise by chance." "I would rather discover one cause than gain the kingdom of Persia" "Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof" "I have known uncertainty: a state unknown to the Greeks." "One is allowed to change the past, but only in the libraries." "The lesson I’ve learned the most often in life is that you’re always going to know more in the future than you know now "