“The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive 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.
“It takes a couple of years just to get the background and knowledge that you need before you can go into detailed training for your mission.”
“The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.”
“A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.”
“Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.”
“This means that no single logic is strong enough to support the total construction of human knowledge.”
“The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.”
“The business of a scientific school is the dissemination of useful knowledge, and this is a noble enterprise and indispensable withal society can not exist unless it goes on.”
“These will vary in every human being but knowledge is the same for every mind, and every mind may and ought to be trained to receive it.”
“Psychopaths know the technical difference between right and wrong - which is one of the reasons their insanity pleas in criminal cases so rarely succeed they just fail to act on that knowledge.”
“Anyone who acquires more than the usual amount of knowledge concerning a subject is bound to leave it as his contribution to the knowledge of the world.”
“There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.”
“Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.”
“We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.”
“To express the same idea in still another way, I think that human knowledge is essentially active.”
“Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for comprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge.”
“Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.”