Embracing Knowledge Quotes

What I love about the East End is that there's a great perseverance, determination and courage. What I dislike about it is that there is sometimes a celebration of ignorance.

You cannot help but learn more as take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is and old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it.

Knowing ignorance is strength; ignoring knowledge is sickness.

Most people, including ourselves, live in a world of relative ignorance. We are even comfortable with that ignorance, because it is all we know. When we first start facing truth, the process may be frightening, and many people run back to their old lives. But if you continue to seek truth, you will eventually be able to handle it better. In fact, you want more! It's true that many people around you now may think you are weird or even a danger to society, but you don't care. Once you've tasted the truth, you won't ever want to go back to being ignorant

I make it my rule, to lay hold of light and embrace it, wherever I see it, though held forth by a child or an enemy.

We should find God in what we do know, not in what we don't; not in outstanding problems, but in those we have already solved.

Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge.

The advance of science spares us from irrational dread.

You shouldn't be afraid of science. Accepting the reality of nature makes life more exciting and even more precious.

When, as we must often do, we fear science, we really fear ourselves. Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge.

Wisdom is not only to be acquired, but enjoyed.

BE A STUDENT BY STAYING OPEN AND WILLING TO LEARN FROM EVERYONE AND ANYONE.

People seem to be afraid of science, and certainly, people seem to be afraid of mathematics. And I think that's such a shame, because I don't think it's as hard as people seem to think it is.