“Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.”
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“As knowledge increases, wonder deepens.”
“It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.”
“Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.”
“I listen to them freely and with all the respect merited by their intelligence, their character, their knowledge, reserving always my incontestable right of criticism and censure.”
“Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social aims in mind: prepare to take on one's share in the world's work, and perhaps in addition, lend a hand in improving society, after schooling is done.”
“My understanding is that what was provided was general order of battle information, not operational intelligence. I certainly have no knowledge of US participation in preparing battle and strike packages and doubt strongly that that occurred.”
“To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.”
“The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.”
“Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.”
“One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.”
“Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.”
“All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.”
“If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.”
“Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.”
“Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.”
“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”
“As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.”
“The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance.”
“Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with.”
“I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.”
“Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile.”
“This life that has been given to us as a gift, as such a precious gift. To really try to understand it, really try to recognize it, is the greatest meditation. Through the media of this Knowledge we can tap into our inner sources that are so beautiful.”
“Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.”