Knowledge Quotes

"There are four stages of competence: unconscious incompetence, conscious incompetence, conscious competence, and unconscious competence."

"The knowledge came to me very slowly."

"Intelligence is a fine thing."

"Research is a big word that scares a lot of people."

"I am not going to write about what I do not know."

"To understand a thing, you must live it."

"The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world."

"Ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have."

"It is only in this endless space of self-examination that conscience and consciousness are born."

"If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday."

"Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch."

"The most dangerous enemy to progress is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge."

"I have often been impressed by the fact that there are very few things which I know for certain."

"Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery."

"The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence."

"A writer who omits things because he does not know them only makes hollow books."

"The brain is like a television set with many channels. Pay attention to what you are watching."

"Knowledge is power, but enthusiasm pulls the switch."

"The natural state of the intellectual is a kind of unsatisfactory discontent."

"I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigree of nations."

"Knowledge is power only if man knows what truth is."

"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time."

"The task of the critic is to distinguish between apparent and intrinsic merit."

"The more facts we know, the greater our ignorance becomes."

"In the hands of the ignorant, even a small fact becomes a dangerous weapon."

"The most dangerous thing in the world is sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."

"Hemingway believed that observation is the key to understanding human nature."

"The pursuit of knowledge is the pursuit of freedom."

"Intelligence is a force, and like all forces, it must be directed with wisdom."

"The greatest discoveries are often made not by those seeking them, but by those seeking something else."