Quotes about Knowledge
The more civilized we become, the more relatively ignorant must each individual be of the facts on which the working of his civilization depends.
Knowledge is the only instrument of production that is not subject to diminishing returns.
Human knowledge is doubling every ten years. In the past decade, more scientific knowledge has been created than in all of human history.
The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.
A desire of knowledge is the natural feeling of mankind; and every human being, whose mind is not debauched, will be willing to give all that he has to get knowledge.
Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labour; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.
Doubt everything or believe everything: these are two equally convenient strategies. With either we dispense with the need for reflection.
It has become almost a cliché to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.