"The
reason why so
few good books
are written is that so few people who can write know
anything."
Walter
Bagehot, English social scientist (1826-1877)
"The
problem with people is not
that
they don't know but that they know so much
that ain't so."
Josh
Billings (c.1874)
"Young men think
old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools."
George Chapman, All Fools,
1605
"A comprehended god is no god. ..."
St. John Chrysostom
"Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much; Wisdom is humble that he knows no more."
William Cowper
"My idea of God is not a
divine idea. It has to be shattered time after
time. He shatters it Himself. He is the great iconoclast. Could we not
almost say that this shattering is one of the marks of His presence?
The Incarnation is the supreme example; it leaves all previous ideas of
the Messiah in ruins. And most are 'offended' by the iconoclasm; and
blessed are those that are not."
C. S. Lewis, from 'A Grief Observed'
"The
advancement and diffusion of knowledge is
the only guardian of true liberty."
James Madison
"Well
knows
he who
uses to consider, that our faith and knowledge
thrives by exercise, as
well as our limbs and complexion. Truth is
compar'd in Scripture to a
streaming fountain; if her water flow not in a perpetual progression,
they sick'n into a muddy pool of conformity and tradition."
John
Milton
"The
college idealists who fill the
ranks of the environmental movement seem willing to do absolutely anything to save the biosphere, except
take science courses and learn something about it."
P.J.
O'Rourke
"Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite."
Karl Popper
"Freedom can exist
only in the society of knowledge. Without
learning, men are
incapable of knowing their rights."
Benjamin Rush
"There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge."
Bertrand Russell
"I
was gratified to
be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know."
Mark Twain
"I
am not young enough
to know everything."
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
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