Respect for Knowledge Quotes

A man goes to knowledge as he goes to war, wide awake, with fear, with respect, and with absolute assurance.

Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn't rip off.

The reason why the simpler sort are moved with authority, is the consciousness of their own ignorance; whereby it cometh to pass that having learned men in admiration, they rather fear to dislike them than know wherefore they should allow and follow their judgments. Contrariwise with them that are skilful authority is much more strong and forcible; because they only are able to discern how just cause there is why to some men's authority so much should be attributed.

Facts matter. Science matters. Reason matters. Mitt Romney has shown an inability to respect any of the three. President Barack Obama not only respects them, he relies on them. He is an overwhelming and unquestioned choice to continue as president.

Man's respect for knowledge is one of his most peculiar characteristics. Knowledge in Latin is scientia, and science came to be the name of the most respectable kind of knowledge.

I think it's counterproductive in many ways to pretend to know things you don't. You surround yourself with people who are the real experts.

For our family, learning was everything. Homework came first; books, being sacred, were never to be left on the floor.

When you have a teacher who is part of a tradition, the other people in that tradition are such stars. You just look at them like pop stars.

People know, or dimly feel, that if thinking is not kept pure and keen, and if respect for the world of mind is no longer operative, ships and automobiles will soon cease to run right, the engineer's slide rule and the computations of banks and stock exchanges will forfeit validity and authority, and chaos will ensue.

I think the main lesson that I have learned is that a good scientist is a humble scientist who is open-minded to listen to other scientists when they discover something.

To have a sense of education and ethics is important.

In my family, as in most middle-class Indian families I knew when I was growing up, science and mathematics were held in awe.

And whilst he may not claim superiority by reason of learning, I myself must not withold that meed of homage that learning, wherever it resides, always commands.

People are wiser than we are willing to attribute to them.

Reverence, enthusiasm, and a sense of guardianship, these three are actually the panacea, the magical remedy, in the soul of the educator and teacher.

Canada was settled, in the main, by people with a lower middle-class outlook, and a respect, rather than an affectionate familiarity, for the things of the mind.