To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth.

I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions.

My advice to women in general: Even if you're doing a nine - to - five job, treat yourself like a boss. Not arrogant, but be sure of what you want - and don't allow people to run anything for you...

Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.

It is true, there could be a metaphysical world; the absolute possibility of it is hardly to be disputed. We behold all things through the human head and cannot cut off this head; while the question...

Love is ever the beginning of Knowledge as fire is of light.

Saying of the Prophet. Ink and Blood: The ink of the learned is holier than the blood of the martyr.

If you don't know history, you don't know anything. Edward Johnston

Though our collective level of knowledge may always be defined by a certain set of answers, we are never limited by the questions we may pose.

Knowledge that does not change behaviour is useless. But knowledge that changes behaviour quickly loses its relevance.

Men of power have not time to read, yet men who do not read are not fit for power.

More people are finding satisfaction in wealth, but real wealth is knowledge; knowledge is organized in books, and books are available in the libraries.

Our knowledge is limited. However, reading augments our knowledge.

Knowledge perpetuates luck and luck perpetuates knowledge

Anyone can put a price on knowledge - schools and universities do it all the time, but no one can put a price on wisdom for it can neither be bought nor sold. It should be given and accepted with no...

You cannot do anything with knowledge unless you know where it stops, and the costs of using it.

It is a sad thing to think of, but there is no doubt that genius lasts longer than beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves. In the wild struggle for...

"What a big book, captain, might be made with all that is known!" "And what a much bigger book still with all that is not known!"

Real experience is knowledge

There is nothing that cannot be explained if one has access to a library with good reference books.

People are supposed to fear the unknown, but ignorance is bliss when knowledge is so damn frightening.

The researcher's gaze often found more than he wished to find.

Knowledge, like all things, is best in moderation," intoned the Will. "Knowing everything means you don't need to think, and that is very dangerous.

You can't expect anyone to trust revelation if he hasn't experienced it himself. Those who haven't only know reason. And since revelation is a thing apart, and cannot be accounted for reasonably, they...

Her reputation for reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy envelope of a goddess in an epic.

You remember only what you want to remember. You know only what your heart allows you to know.

It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires.

I would like to think of my 'ignorance' less as a personal failing and more as a massive cultural trend, an example of doubling, of psychic numbing, that characterizes the end of the millennium. If we...

It is my belief no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self-knowledge.

The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have known since long.