Thomas Huxley Quotes

If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?

A little learning is not a dangerous thing to one who does not mistake it for a great deal.

I ain't one of those who believe that a half knowledge of a subject is useless, but it has been my experience that when a fellow has that half knowledge he finds it's the other half which would really come in handy.

A grain of real knowledge, of genuine controllable conviction, will outweigh a bushel of adroitness; and to produce persuasion there is one golden principle of rhetoric not put down in the books-to understand what you are talking about.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing." - Harkat Mulds (Hunters of the Dusk)

Better know nothing than half-know many things.

Between believing a thing and thinking you KNOW is only a small step and quickly taken.

I don't call myself an expert because I've played experts. I know a little bit about very little. But it's very hard to not be drawn into saying something, especially if it has to do with the work.

It isn’t what the book costs. It’s what it will cost you if you don’t read it.

The abuse of books kills science. Believing that we know what we have read, we believe that we can dispense with learning it.

We have been naive enough to believe that we were invincible; that we could run blind through the hairpin turns of life at treacherous speeds and never crash.

You may have noticed that the less I know about a subject the more confidence I have, and the more new light I throw on it.

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all.

Real knowledge never promoted either turbulence or unbelief; but its progress is the forerunner of liberality and enlightened toleration.

I am trying to be as impartial as possible. As you can tell from the trailers for Mad Men, I am a person who believes that you should know nothing.

Better to be ignorant of a matter than half know it.

If there's anything worse than knowing too little, it's knowing too much. Education will broaden a narrow mind, but there's no known cure for a big head. The best you can hope is that it will swell up and bust.

I do not approve the maxim which desires a man to know a little of everything. Superficial knowledge, knowledge without principles, is almost always useless and sometimes harmful knowledge.

Is then thy knowledge of no value, unless another know that thou possessest that knowledge?

I believe order is better than chaos, creation better than destruction. I prefer gentleness to violence, forgiveness to vendetta. On the whole I think that knowledge is preferable to ignorance, and I am sure that human sympathy is more valuable than ideology. I believe that in spite of the recent triumphs of science, men haven't changed much in the last two thousand years; and in consequence we must try to learn from history.

It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves.

To understand matters rightly we should understand their details; and as that knowledge is almost infinite, our knowledge is always superficial and imperfect.

All knowledge is good. It is impossible to say any fragment of knowledge, however insignificant or remote from one's ordinary pursuits, may not some day be turned to account.

Sometimes happiness is not knowing the whole story.