Nick Tosches Quotes

Nothing is more powerful and liberating than knowledge.

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.

Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.

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

Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark all is deluge.

To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.

We are slaves to whatever we don't understand.

Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.

In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance.

Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped power can stand against the artillery of opinion.

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.

Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.

Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

That knowledge is power – that education is the citadel of liberty – that national glory and prosperity consist in the cultivation of the sciences, in the elevation of the liberal arts, in the extension of the powers of productive industry, are now considered as admitted truths and acknowledged axioms

The most bitter pain among men: to have much knowledge but little power.

There are two things that are infinite: The universe and human folly. And sometimes I am not sure about the universe.

When you've got education, you've got knowledge and power and confidence to go out in the world.

Let us pick up our books and pencils. They are our most powerful weapon.

Philosophy is harmonized knowledge making a harmonious life; it is the self-discipline which lifts us to serenity and freedom. Knowledge is power, but only wisdom is liberty.

Let us pick up our books and our pens, they are the most powerful weapons.

Knowledge is power but only wisdom is liberty.

Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.

The best minds come from the most unexpected faces and places. There is no image for intelligence or genius. Genius is something that cannot be seen. It cannot be produced or manufactured. It is something that even the true genius thinks is unattainable. The genius recognizes he’s just a small pea in a sea of infinite atoms. Knowledge is as infinite as the universe. The man who claims to know all, only reveals to all that he really knows nothing.