Friday, September 14, 2012

Amazing Quotes 11: Knowledge

Ah ... knowledge, one of the most fundamental thing in our life! arguably, it is the one that differentiate us from mere animals. Here are fantastic quotes about knowledge:

The only thing more expensive than education is ignorance.”
-- Benjamin Franklin

'We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid. '
-- Benjamin Franklin

"Faith: not wanting to know what is true."
-- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"Our ignorance is God; what we know is science."
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, "The Gods", 1872

"Religion is based, I think, primarily and mainly upon fear. It is partly the terror of the unknown and partly, as I have said, the wish to feel that you have a kind of elder brother who will stand by you in all your troubles and disputes.... A good world needs knowledge, kindliness, and courage; it does not need a regretful hankering after the past or a fettering of the free intelligence by the words uttered long ago by ignorant men."
-- Bertrand Russel in his essay "Why I am not a Christian"

"Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!"
-- George Bernard Shaw

"If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them."
-- Isaac Asimov

The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.
-- Stephen Hawking


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