Society and the World

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge.

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

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 exists to be imparted.

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

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.

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.

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.

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

This I know - that I know nothing.