Moses I. Finley Quotes

Knowledge and understanding are life's faithful companions who will never prove untrue to you. For knowledge is your crown, and understanding your staff; and when they are with you, you can possess no greater treasures.

Wisdom is one of the few things that looks bigger the further away it is.

The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance.

The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom.

All of science to me, everything that we have learned, is important to the extent that it brings us to our senses.

Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile.

The only barrier to human development is ignorance, and this is not insurmountable.

Information is not knowledge.

There is a profound difference between information and meaning.

The more knowledge you've got, the more understanding you have, the better you are able to implement and pass it on to others.

The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.

Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.

New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.

Knowledge is more important than life. We've only one excuse for existing, to think, to find out, to learn.

What I care about is maximum information.

It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.

I'll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth.

Knowledge is that which benefits, not that which is memorized

The saddest thing about any man is that he be ignorant …

To be famous these days with no grounding and no substance is not especially difficult. I urge you instead to seek to be relevant, to be agile and educated.

The accumulation of knowledge is a powerful thing.

I can't imagine not being able to read and write, or make these connections from literature and philosophy that have helped inform my understanding of evolution.

from one thing, know ten thousand things

Some people still think knowledge is power.