Quotes to inspire and reflect

A woman, especially if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

The difference between risk and uncertainty is that you can attach a probability to risk but not to uncertainty.

We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.

I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.

The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.

Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge.

If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation.

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.

Knowledge exists to be imparted.

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

There is no knowledge that is not power.

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.

This I know - that I know nothing.

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

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.

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

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

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

I am not young enough to know everything.

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

The only source of knowledge is experience.

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

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

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.

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

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

Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

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

A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

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.

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.

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

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.

Without freedom there can be no morality.

Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.

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.

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

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.