“Others think it the responsibility of scientists to coerce the rest of society, because they have the power that derives from special knowledge.”
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.
“All men by nature desire knowledge.”
“Others think it the responsibility of scientists to coerce the rest of society, because they have the power that derives from special knowledge.”
“Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge is thought so unnecessary an Accomplishment for a Woman, that few will give themselves the Trouble to assist us in the Attainment of it.”
“The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.”
“Beware of false knowledge it is more dangerous than ignorance.”
“Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.”
“Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.”
“Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.”
“Checking the results of a decision against its expectations shows executives what their strengths are, where they need to improve, and where they lack knowledge or information.”
“Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.”
“A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but a little want of knowledge is also a dangerous thing.”
“Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.”
“Epistemology is the study of knowledge. By what conduit do we know what we know?”
“Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.”
“If you first fortify yourself with the true knowledge of the Universal Self, and then live in the midst of wealth and worldliness, surely they will in no way affect you.”
“Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.”