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| Some kind of philosophy is a necessity to all but the most thoughtless, and in the absence of knowledge it is almost sure to be a silly philosophy. |
| Bertrand Russell |
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| Someday, in the distant future, our grandchildren's grandchildren will develop a new equivalent of our classrooms. They will spend many hours in front of boxes with fires glowing within. May they have the wisdom to know the difference between light and knowledge. |
| Plato |
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| Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. |
| Isaac Asimov |
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| Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge. |
| Daniel J. Boorstin |
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| That there should one man die ignorant who had capacity for knowledge, this I call a tragedy. |
| Thomas Carlyle |
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| The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand. |
| Frank Herbert |
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| The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office. |
| Robert Frost |
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| The desire to know and to understand are themselves connotative, i.e. have a striving character, and are as much personality needs as the `basic needs' we have already discussed. |
| Abraham Maslow |
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| The entire object of true education, is to make people not merely do the right thing, but to enjoy right things; not merely industrious, but to love industry; not merely learned, but to love knowledge. |
| John Ruskin |
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| The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him. |
| Blaise Pascal |
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| The knowledge of God without that of man's misery causes pride. The knowledge of man's misery without that of God causes despair. The knowledge of Jesus Christ constitutes the middle course, because in Him we find both God and our misery. |
| Blaise Pascal |
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| The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant. |
| Plato |
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| The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do. |
| Benjamin Disraeli |
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| The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief |
| Sigmund Freud |
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| The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching. |
| Aristotle |
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| The only progress that knowledge allows is in enabling us to describe more and more in detail the world we see and its evolution. What matters in a world-view is to grasp the meaning and purpose of everything, and that we cannot do. |
| Albert Schweitzer |
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