“The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts.”
Knowledge is power, but only if you do something with it. These quotes explore learning, expertise, wisdom, ignorance, and the lifelong project of trying to understand a world that keeps changing faster than you can study it.
“Most North Americans know that human-caused global warming is real, even if political leaders don't always reflect or act on that knowledge.”
“The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts.”
“It is common knowledge that smoking is considered one of the nation's leading causes of preventable death, but it's less widely known that cigarettes are also the leading cause of fatal fires.”
“Life has obliged him to remember so much useful knowledge that he has lost not only his history, but his whole original cargo of useless knowledge history, languages, literatures, the higher mathematics, or what you will - are all gone.”
“Universities exist to transmit knowledge and understanding of ideas and values to students not to provide entertainment for spectators or employment for athletes.”
“There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.”
“Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.”
“To act on the belief that we possess the knowledge and the power which enable us to shape the processes of society entirely to our liking, knowledge which in fact we do not possess, is likely to make us do much harm.”
“I'm on a mission. And I know the older I get, I may lose a step or two, but it's all up in the medulla oblongata. I've got a lot up there. I've got a lot of knowledge... in this medulla oblongata.”
“A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but a little want of knowledge is also a dangerous thing.”
“Doubt is the middle position between knowledge and ignorance. It encompasses cynicism but also genuine questioning.”
“We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.”
“Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.”
“Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.”
“Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.”
“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”