 | If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.
- Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
, speech at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, October 8, 1952. |
| "All men by nature desire knowledge."
- Aristotle
, Metaphysics. |
| "To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge."
- Benjamin Disraeli
, Sybil, 1845. |
| "There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge."
- Bertrand Russell
. |
| "When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge."
- Confucius
, The Confucian Analects. |
| "Convinced myself, I seek not to convince."
- Edgar Allan Poe
, Berenice. |
| "It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge."
- Enrico Fermi
. |
| "The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand."
- Frank Herbert
. |
| "If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them."
- Isaac Asimov
. |
| His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.
- J. K. Rowling
, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. |