Human knowledge is dark and uncertain; philosophy is dark, astrology is dark, and geometry is dark.
Every branch of human knowledge, if traced up to its source and final principles, vanishes into mystery.
Knowledge and human power are synonymous.
Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science; like all spiritual qualities, it has the vagueness of greatness about it.
The most wonderful study of mankind is man. Relieving human suffering and diffusing universal knowledge is humanitarian.
Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values.
In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.
Even though I'm a hype man myself, I like the practicality of it all. People who understand how to turn a profit. At the end of the day, this is still business so I'm looking for real practical knowledge of how to actually make money, not necessarily raise it.
I want to learn about a different religion. I grew up Catholic, but my grandfather was Jewish. Knowledge about other religions can help you understand your own better. I think it's kind of hypocritical to believe one thing and don't know about any others.
Science, we are repeatedly told, is the most reliable form of knowledge about the world because it is based on testable hypotheses. Religion, by contrast, is based on faith. The term 'doubting Thomas' well illustrates the difference.
I do bring an intimate knowledge of the South African team. I know the little idiosyncrasies of each of them.
Is there anything science should not try to explain? Science is knowledge and knowledge is power - power to do good or evil. Sometimes ignorance is bliss.
I've always thought that when they say ignorance is bliss, the converse to that is that knowledge is hell. The more you know, the bleaker things can get.
Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.
Children need to have both time to think and the motivation to think for themselves, to develop an expert reading brain, before the digital mode dominates their reading. The immediacy and volume of information should not be confused with true knowledge.
On our plane knowledge and ignorance are the immemorial adversaries.
The teaching thing, the one where I have to impart my knowledge, is probably what comes the least naturally to me because I'm an absorber of things.
I think that we have a great opportunity to impart our wisdom and our knowledge and our experience to this younger generation. It may be different times, but experience transcends time, and wisdom transcends time.
Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social aims in mind: prepare to take on one's share in the world's work, and perhaps in addition, lend a hand in improving society, after schooling is done.
Imparting knowledge is only lighting other men's candles at our lamp without depriving ourselves of any flame.
