A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance.
The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts.
Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity.
Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only pain we obey.
The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge.
In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.
It is now common knowledge that the average American gains 7 pounds between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day.
Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.
If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.
Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.
Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.
Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.
Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated.
The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.
Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.
Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous.
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but a little want of knowledge is also a dangerous thing.
The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well but their manners should be of the greatest concern.
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.
The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.
Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.
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.
The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.
The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.
It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations.
Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.
The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.
There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge... observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts reflection combines them experimentation verifies the result of that combination.
Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.
If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?
The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.