Isaac Asimov Quotes

Even as a youngster, though, I could not bring myself to believe that if knowledge presented danger, the solution was ignorance. To me, it always seemed that the solution had to be wisdom. You did not refuse to look at danger, rather you learned how to handle it safely.

True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.

It is dangerous to know, but it is more dangerous not to know.

The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.

Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.

He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

Only by ignorance is science threatened.

A man remains ignorant because he loves ignorance, and chooses ignorant thoughts; a man becomes wise because he loves wisdom and chooses wise thoughts.

The acorn of honest inquiry has often sprouted and matured into a great oak of understanding.

Our understanding of the world around us is constantly being redefined and expanded, and so therefore, it is wiser to be passionate about seeking for truth than knowing it.

Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.

The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off old prejudices.

The more I read, the more I realise what I don't know.

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

The learned man knows that he is ignorant.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but a little want of knowledge is also a dangerous thing.

Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.

No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.

Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.

My own view about knowledge is we're always better to have knowledge.

Quick condemnation of all that is not ours, of views with which we disagree, of ideas that do not attract us, is the sign of a narrow mind, of an uncultivated intelligence. Bigotry is always ignorant, and the wise boy, who will become the wise man, tries to understand and to see the truth in ideas with which he does not agree.

Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.

There are few earthly things more beautiful than a university a place where those who hate ignorance may strive to know, where those who perceive truth may strive to make others see.