Knowledge, Ignorance

"In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence."

Laurence J. Peter "The Peter Principle"

Authority, Government

Knowledge, Ignorance

Rating: 9.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Incompetence plus incompetence equals incompetence."

Laurence J. Peter "The Peter Principle"

Knowledge, Ignorance

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"First you use machines, then you wear machines, and then ...? Then you serve machines."

John Brunner

Freedom and Servitude

Knowledge, Ignorance

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"If one knows only what one is told, one does not know enough to be able to arrive at a well-balanced decision."

Leo Szilard

Knowledge, Ignorance

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"By enlarging your knowledge of things, you will find your knowledge of self is enlarged."

Charles de Lint

Knowledge, Ignorance

Rating: 8.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world."

Louis Pasteur

Knowledge, Ignorance

Science and Technology

Rating: 7.52 (Number of Voters: 29)

"I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors; and I shall adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be true views."

Abraham Lincoln

Defeates and Mistakes

Knowledge, Ignorance

Rating: 7.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge; once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less."

Arthur Miller

Knowledge, Ignorance

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom."

Isaac Asimov

Knowledge, Ignorance

Science and Technology

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 6.50 (Number of Voters: 24)

"Learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but also of knowing what we could do and perhaps should not do."

Umberto Eco

Education

Knowledge, Ignorance

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it."

Edith Wharton

Good and Evil

Knowledge, Ignorance

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent."

Isaac Asimov

Good and Evil

Knowledge, Ignorance

Rating: 5.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"A little learning is a dangerous thing."

English Proverbs

Knowledge, Ignorance

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding and understanding is not wisdom."

Clifford Stoll

Knowledge, Ignorance

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 6)

"The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers."

Thomas Jefferson

Education

Knowledge, Ignorance

Rating: 7.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Property may be destroyed and money may lose it's purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge, and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions."

Roger Babson

Intellect, Judgement

Knowledge, Ignorance

Richness and Money

Rating: 4.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still."

Chinese Proverbs

Knowledge, Ignorance

Youth and Age

Rating: 6.33 (Number of Voters: 6)

"Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything."

Sydney Smith

Knowledge, Ignorance

Rating: 6.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs."

Bertrand Russell

Knowledge, Ignorance

Various

Rating: 4.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"The more we study, the more we discover our ignorance."

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Knowledge, Ignorance

Rating: 4.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Knowledge is like a garden; if it is not cultivated, it cannot be harvested."

African Proverbs

Knowledge, Ignorance

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; love by love."

Thomas Szasz

Knowledge, Ignorance

Love

Trust

Rating: 3.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Understanding is the reward of faith. Therefore seek not to understand that thou mayest believe, but believe, that thou mayest understand."

St. Augustine of Hippo "Ioannis Evangelium"

God and Religion

Knowledge, Ignorance

Rating: 5.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied."

Click if you know the author

Knowledge, Ignorance

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 4.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing."

Socrates

Knowledge, Ignorance

Rating: 2.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag."

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Knowledge, Ignorance

Memory

Rating: 5.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance."

Francesco Petrarca

Knowledge, Ignorance

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 7.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"An expert is someone who guesses right more often than you do."

Click if you know the author

Knowledge, Ignorance

Rating: 4.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest."

Benjamin Franklin

Education

Knowledge, Ignorance

Rating: 9.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"There is the known and there is the unknown. In between are The Doors."

Jim Morrison

Art and Culture

Knowledge, Ignorance

Various

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Painting is very easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do."

Edgar Degas

Art and Culture

Knowledge, Ignorance

Rating: 7.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Life has taught me to think, but thinking has not taught me to live."

Aleksandr Ivanovich Herzen

Intellect, Judgement

Knowledge, Ignorance

Life and Death

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Information can tell us everything. It has all the answers. But they are answers to questions we have not asked, and which doubtless don't even arise."

Jean Baudrillard "Cool Memories"

Knowledge, Ignorance

Question and Problem

Science and Technology

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"To be proud of knowledge is to be blind with light."

Benjamin Franklin

Egoism

Knowledge, Ignorance

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 5.67 (Number of Voters: 6)

"I know too much to be a sceptic and too little to be a dogmatist."

Pierre Bayle "Historical and Critical Dictionary"

Knowledge, Ignorance

Rating: 2.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"If confusion is the first step to knowledge, I must be a genius."

Larry Leissner

Knowledge, Ignorance

Talent and Genius

Rating: 7.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier."

Henry Louis Mencken "A Mencken Chrestomathy"

Knowledge, Ignorance

Various

Rating: 3.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology."

Carl Sagan

Knowledge, Ignorance

Science and Technology

Rating: 2.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"I speak others' minds only to speak my own the more."

Michel de Montaigne "Essays"

Knowledge, Ignorance

Various

Rating: 3.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"If you can't make knowledge your servant, make it your friend."

Baltasar Gracian "The Art of Worldly Wisdom"

Knowledge, Ignorance

Rating: 6.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value."

Carl Sagan

Knowledge, Ignorance

Science and Technology

Various

Rating: 5.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles."

Sun Tzu

Knowledge, Ignorance

Peace and War

Rating: 4.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

Albert Einstein

Knowledge, Ignorance

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 1.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil not the strength to choose between the two."

John Cheever "John Cheever: The Journals"

Good and Evil

Knowledge, Ignorance

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 7.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Philosophy began when man ate the produce of the earth and suffered indigestion."

Khalil Gibran

Knowledge, Ignorance

Science and Technology

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being."

Orison Swett Marden

Knowledge, Ignorance

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 6.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"If we knew what we were doing it wouldn't be research."

Albert Einstein

Knowledge, Ignorance

Science and Technology

Rating: 4.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Without a knowledge of languages you feel as if you don't have a passport."

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Education

Knowledge, Ignorance

Rating: 4.40 (Number of Voters: 5)