Quotes about Knowledge

'Facts' are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.

The more ignorant we become the less value we set on science, and the less inclination we shall have to seek it.

All of science is nothing more than the refinement of everyday thinking.

Nature does not reveal her mysteries once and for all.

The principle to be kept in mind is to know what we see rather than to see what we know.

There are dead thoughts and there are living thoughts. A dead thought has been compared to a stone which one may plant in the soil. Nothing will come out. A living thought is like a seed. In the process of thinking, an answer without a question is devoid of life. It may enter the mind; it will not penetrate the soul. It may become a part of one's knowledge; it will not come forth as a creative force.

The most incomprehensible fact is that we comprehend at all.

The love of truth is an act of the spirit.

We must never forget that there is a higher truth than the one we are able to comprehend at first sight.

The Greeks learned in order to comprehend. The Hebrews learned in order to revere. The modern man learns in order to use.

The precedence of faith over knowledge. "When at Sinai Israel said we shall do and we shall hear (instead of saying, we shall hear and we shall do), a heavenly voice went forth and exclaimed,"Who has revealed to My children this mystery, which the ministering angels enact, to fulfill His word before they hear the voice."

Modern man fell into the trap of believing that everything can be explained, that reality is a simple affair which has only to be organized in order to be mastered.