Quotes about Knowledge

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shpwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, of the manifestations of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty - it is this knowledge and this emotion that constitute the truly religious attitude; in this sense, and in this alone, I am a deeply religious man.

We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us

Look to the stars and from them learn.

It is difficult to say what truth is, but sometimes it is so easy to recognize a falsehood.

One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.

Somebody who reads only newspapers and at best books of contemporary authors looks to me like an extremely near-sighted person who scorns eyeglasses. He is completely dependent on the prejudices and fashions of his times, since he never gets to see or hear anything else. And what a person thinks on his own without being stimulated by the thoughts and experiences of other people is even in the best case rather paltry and monotonous.

The only thing you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library.

While knowledge defines all we currently know and understand, imagination points to all we might yet discover and create.

The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.

If people only talked about what they understood, Earth would be a very quiet place.

It is no accident that capitalism has brought with it progress not merely in production but also in knowledge. Egoism and competition are, alas, stronger forces than public spirit and sense of duty.