Knowledge

The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.

Theodore Roosevelt

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.

Any fool can know. The point is to understand.

Any fool can know. The point is to understand.

Albert Einstein

We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.

We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.

Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.

Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.

Saint Augustine

There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.

There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.

Albert Einstein

We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.

We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.

Albert Einstein

The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.

The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

Albert Einstein

What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.

What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.

Saint Augustine

We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.

We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.

I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.

I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.

Thomas Jefferson

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. It is much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after you.

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. It is much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after you.

Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.

Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.

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

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

Only the educated are free.

Only the educated are free.

If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

Better know rightly than hope wrongly.

Better know rightly than hope wrongly.

Norwegian proverbs

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