Knowledge, Ignorance

"Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Dreams and Desires

Knowledge, Ignorance

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen."

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Knowledge, Ignorance

Oration and Silence

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it."

Celine-Louis-Ferdinand

Education

Knowledge, Ignorance

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 4.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don't know."

Ambrose Bierce

Knowledge, Ignorance

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 3.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance."

Socrates

Good and Evil

Knowledge, Ignorance

Rating: 5.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination."

Bertrand Russell

Knowledge, Ignorance

Reality and Imagination

Science and Technology

Rating: 3.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Knowledge does not come to us by details, but in flashes of light from heaven."

Henry David Thoreau

Knowledge, Ignorance

Talent and Genius

Rating: 5.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other."

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle "A Study in Scarlet"

Knowledge, Ignorance

Science and Technology

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them."

Sir William Bragg

Knowledge, Ignorance

Science and Technology

Rating: 4.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person."

Lewis Mumford

Knowledge, Ignorance

Power and Weakness

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"All my life I believed I knew something. But then one strange day came when I realized that I knew nothing; yes, I knew nothing. And so words became void of meaning. I have arrived too late at ultimate uncertainty."

Ezra Pound

Knowledge, Ignorance

Rating: 2.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't."

Mignon McLaughin "The Neurotic's Notebook"

Knowledge, Ignorance

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 6.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance."

Will Durant

Education

Knowledge, Ignorance

Rating: 4.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"When a man goes through six years training to be a doctor he will never be the same. He knows too much."

Enid Bagnold "Autobiography"

Education

Knowledge, Ignorance

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing."

Herman Melville "Redburn"

Knowledge, Ignorance

Rating: 6.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Knowledge is the most democratic source of power."

Alvin Toffler "The Democratic Difference"

Knowledge, Ignorance

Power and Weakness

Rating: 4.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare."

Harriet Martineau

Knowledge, Ignorance

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 4.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly."

William James "Principles of Psychology"

Knowledge, Ignorance

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 3.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts."

Henry Brooks Adams "The Education of Henry Adams"

Education

Knowledge, Ignorance

Rating: 4.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become."

Kurt Vonnegut "Breakfast of Champions"

Knowledge, Ignorance

Truth and Falsity

Rating: 6.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows."

G. I. Gurdjieff

Knowledge, Ignorance

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"I hate books; they only teach us to talk about what we don't know."

Rousseau-Jean-Jacques "Emile, or Education"

Art and Culture

Knowledge, Ignorance

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Where facts are few, experts are many."

Donald R. Gannon

Knowledge, Ignorance

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

"If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them."

Isaac Asimov

Knowledge, Ignorance

Question and Problem

Rating: 4.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Empirical knowledge is exclusively a knowledge of probabilities."

Clarence Irving Lewis "Mind and the World-Order"

Knowledge, Ignorance

Rating: 6.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Knowledge is consciousness of reality. Reality is the sum of the laws that govern nature and of the causes from which they flow."

Egyptian Proverbs (from ancient temple)

Knowledge, Ignorance

Nature and Animals

Reality and Imagination

Rating: 4.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Against logic there is no armor like ignorance."

Laurence J. Peter

Intellect, Judgement

Knowledge, Ignorance

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated."

Alec Bourne

Education

Knowledge, Ignorance

Rating: 5.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"As a general rule the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information."

Benjamin Disraeli

Knowledge, Ignorance

Success and Fame

Rating: 3.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge."

Audre Lorde

Knowledge, Ignorance

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

"Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon and star."

Confucius

Knowledge, Ignorance

Rating: 6.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Chance is only the measure of our ignorance."

Henri Poincare "The Foundations of Science"

Destiny and Fate

Knowledge, Ignorance

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"God sells knowledge for labour -- honour for risk."

Arabic Proverbs

God and Religion

Knowledge, Ignorance

Work and Laziness

Rating: 7.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Wisdom is the right use of knowledge."

Charles Spurgeon

Knowledge, Ignorance

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Absence of proof is not proof of absence."

William Cowper

Knowledge, Ignorance

Rating: 3.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows."

Dwight David Eisenhower

Intellect, Judgement

Knowledge, Ignorance

Rating: 6.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"We used to think that if we knew one, we knew two, because one and one are two. We are finding that we must learn a great deal more about "and"."

Arthur Stanley Eddington

Knowledge, Ignorance

Various

Rating: 5.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements simpler through knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore."

Edward de Bono

Intellect, Judgement

Knowledge, Ignorance

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 2)

"Life is only error,
And death is knowledge."

Friedrich von Schiller "Cassandra"

Knowledge, Ignorance

Life and Death

Rating: 4.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Don't be afraid to learn. Knowledge is weightless, a treasure you can always carry easily."

Click if you know the author

Education

Knowledge, Ignorance

Rating: 3.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"The ignorant man always adores what he cannot understand."

Cesare Lombroso

Intellect, Judgement

Knowledge, Ignorance

Rating: 3.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance."

Anthony de Mello

Knowledge, Ignorance

Wisdom and Stupidity

Rating: 6.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

"We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything. "

Thomas Alva Edison

Knowledge, Ignorance

Rating: 5.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Knowledge is power, knowledge shared is power lost."

Aleister Crowley

Knowledge, Ignorance

Power and Weakness

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used, till they are seasoned."

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Knowledge, Ignorance

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"Knowledge that stops at what it does not know is perfect."

Zhuang Zi

Knowledge, Ignorance

Rating: 4.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

"What you don't know would make a great book."

Sydney Smith

Knowledge, Ignorance

Rating: 5.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge."

Carl Sagan

Knowledge, Ignorance

Science and Technology

Rating: 3.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

Knowledge, Ignorance

"Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do."

"It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen."

"Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it."

"There is nothing new under the sun but there are lots of old things we don't know."

"The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance."

"Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination."

"Knowledge does not come to us by details, but in flashes of light from heaven."

"From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other."

"The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them."

"Knowledge is power, if you know it about the right person."

"All my life I believed I knew something. But then one strange day came when I realized that I knew nothing; yes, I knew nothing. And so words became void of meaning. I have arrived too late at ultimate uncertainty."

"It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't."

"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance."

"When a man goes through six years training to be a doctor he will never be the same. He knows too much."

"You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing."

"Knowledge is the most democratic source of power."

"Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare."

"Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly."

"Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts."

"New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become."

"A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows."

"I hate books; they only teach us to talk about what we don't know."

"Where facts are few, experts are many."

"If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them."

"Empirical knowledge is exclusively a knowledge of probabilities."

"Knowledge is consciousness of reality. Reality is the sum of the laws that govern nature and of the causes from which they flow."

"Against logic there is no armor like ignorance."

"It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated."

"As a general rule the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information."

"Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge."

"Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon and star."

"Chance is only the measure of our ignorance."

"God sells knowledge for labour -- honour for risk."

"Wisdom is the right use of knowledge."

"Absence of proof is not proof of absence."

"An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows."

"We used to think that if we knew one, we knew two, because one and one are two. We are finding that we must learn a great deal more about "and"."

"An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements simpler through knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore."

"Life is only error, And death is knowledge."

"Don't be afraid to learn. Knowledge is weightless, a treasure you can always carry easily."

"The ignorant man always adores what he cannot understand."

"Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance."

"We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything. "

"Knowledge is power, knowledge shared is power lost."

"Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used, till they are seasoned."

"Knowledge that stops at what it does not know is perfect."

"What you don't know would make a great book."

"Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge."

"Life is only error,
And death is knowledge."