Knowledge Quotes

"We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void." "Wisdom comes from suffering." "Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance" "In some sort of crude sense which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose" "Reason obeys itself and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it" "It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry" "It is most unlikely I will be able to help you now because I have no way of knowing how to do so You must simply go on reading the books to find out" "A person hears only what they understand " "There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action " "Expertise is the mantra of the mediocre." "In this world, either you're blessed or you're learned." "The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant" "Science is nothing but perception" "Morality is temporary, wisdom is permanent" "A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people" "Not knowing it was hard; knowing it was harder" "The truth is there is a world of difference between knowing something intellectually and knowing it by means of experiencing it." "I’d rather have a lot of questions than a lot of answers" "The ultimate test of your knowledge is your capacity to convey it to another" "Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves"