Quotes to inspire and reflect

Knowledge exists to be imparted.

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.

Someday, in the distant future, our grandchildren's grandchildren will develop a new equivalent of our classrooms. They will spend many hours in front of boxes with fires glowing within. May they have the wisdom to know the difference between light and knowledge.

There is no knowledge that is not power.

The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.

This I know - that I know nothing.

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.

All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.

To appreciate the beauty of a snowflake, it is necessary to stand out in the cold.

To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

The only source of knowledge is experience.

I am not young enough to know everything.

You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.

Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

I love talking about nothing. It is the only thing I know anything about.

Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

A fool can throw a stone in a pond that a 100 wise men can’t get out.

A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

I am a humanist, which means, in part, that I have tried to behave decently without expectations of rewards or punishments after I am dead.

Right is right even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it.

Most of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.

The assumption that animals are without rights and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.

To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong.

Without freedom there can be no morality.

Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.

The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles.

The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.

If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.

Compassion is the basis of morality.

Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.

The higher the buildings, the lower the morals.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

Learn to distinguish the difference between errors of knowledge and breaches of morality.

To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the door to every kind of tyranny.

The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.

Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.

Too cheerful a morality is a loose morality; it is appropriate only to decadent peoples and is found only among them.

I say that a man must be certain of his morality for the simple reason that he has to suffer for it.