Vannevar Bush Quotes

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

Every advance in knowledge brings us face to face with the mystery of our own being.

There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.

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.

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Scientia is knowledge. It is only in the popular mind that it is equated with facts.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

The great quest of life has always been to discover truth.

Being is the great explainer.

All our knowledge falls with the bounds of experience.

Ultimately all knowing, from the highest to the lowest, is the result of experience; it arises on the way of experiences.

In the world of knowledge, the idea of good appears last of all, and is seen only with effort.

Knowledge for its own sake was meaningless, its mere accumulation a waste of time. Knowledge must lead to understanding.

Knowledge is porportionate to being... You know in virtue of what you are.

Men that love wisdom must be acquainted with very many things indeed.

There is no knowledge and science like pondering and thought; and there is no prosperity and advancement like knowledge and science.

It’s ever been the way of the man of science or philosophy. Most folks stay in the dark and then complain they can’t see nothing.” – Snipes (185)

It's only when I say that everything is incomprehensible that I come as close as possible to understanding the only thing it is given to us to understand.

Not to know of what things one should demand demonstration, and of what one should not, argues want of education.

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