What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
The role of the intelligence - that part of us which affirms and denies and formulates opinions is merely to submit.
The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge.
The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for their knowledge, it becomes an object of ambition to be admitted on their list.
When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.
While many hackers have the knowledge, skills, and tools to attack computer systems, they generally lack the motivation to cause violence or severe economic or social harm.
These will vary in every human being; but knowledge is the same for every mind, and every mind may and ought to be trained to receive it.
We do not need to be shoemakers to know if our shoes fit, and just as little have we any need to be professionals to acquire knowledge of matters of universal interest.
I seldom deal in symbolisms; if there be hidden meanings in my verse, they are there without my knowledge.
The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody's word about them.
One of the greatest satisfactions one can ever have, comes from the knowledge that he can do some one thing superlatively well.
The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
A Christian is of no sect. He can dwell in the midst of sects, and appear in their services, without being attached or bound to any. He hath but one knowledge, and that is, Christ in him.
Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.
What guides Marxism, then, is a different model of society, and a different conception of the function of the knowledge that can be produced by society and acquired from it.
The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.
Why isn't it natural for people who have lived and worked at something to want to use the knowledge and capacity in a new way, free from the burden of making a living?
Listen to any musical phrase or rhythm, and grasp it as a whole, and you thereupon have present in you the image, so to speak, of the divine knowledge of the temporal order.
The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.
The absolute dependence of a newborn infant inspired many things in me, but it did not activate any magical knowledge about what to do for the next twenty years.
