“Every branch of human knowledge, if traced up to its source and final principles, vanishes into mystery.”
— Arthur Machen
“Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.”
— James Madison
“A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.”
— Kahlil Gibran
“Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.”
— Samuel Johnson
“The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance—it is the illusion of knowledge.”
— Daniel J. Boorstin
“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
— Albert Einstein
“In some remote corner of the universe, poured out and glittering among innumerable solar systems, there once was a star on which clever animals invented knowledge.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
“Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind. The understanding can intuit nothing, the senses can think nothing. Only through their unison can knowledge arise.”
— Immanuel Kant
“The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.”
— Bertrand Russell
“New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.”
— Kurt Vonnegut
“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
“For this, indeed, is the true source of our ignorance—the fact that our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.”
— Karl Popper