Knowledge and Understanding Quotes

Do you not know, my son, with how little wisdom the world is governed?

It would be a poor thing to be an atom in a universe without physicists, and physicists are made of atoms. A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.

I am aware of the usefulness of science to society and of the benefits society derives from it.

Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing.

Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about them, the more positively they attempt to argue concerning them, while on the other hand to know and understand a multitude of things renders men cautious in passing judgment upon anything new.

If you think you're going to have an eternity in which you can talk to Mozart and Chopin and Schopenhauer on a cloud and learn stuff and you know really get to grips with knowledge and understanding and so you won't bother now, I think it's a terrible, a terrible mistake.

An ignorance of means may minister to greatness, but an ignorance of aims make it impossible to be great at all.

It is better to have wisdom without learning than learning without wisdom.

Everyone agrees to that; but when we come to define truth, dissension starts.