"To be educated, a person doesn't have to know much or be informed, but he or she does have to have been exposed vulnerably to the transformative events of an engaged human life."
"We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance."
"I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art."
"Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms."
"It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge."
"To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge."
"The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance."
"Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance."
"Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination."
"Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge."
"All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason."
"Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control."
"Knowledge is love and light and vision."
"The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge."
"The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant."
"I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity."
"Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods."
"Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds."
"Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives."
"Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too."
"I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone."
"All men by nature desire knowledge."
"Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones."
"The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery."
"Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge."
"All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God."
"It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire a knowledge of other people's business."
"The true method of knowledge is experiment."
"The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge."
"I'm a student of world religion, so to me, it's hugely important to have knowledge and to understand what people are doing."