Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority. Thomas Huxley
To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge. Benjamin Disraeli
Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated. Thomas Sowell
The great end of life is not knowledge but action. Francis Bacon
The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do. Benjamin Disraeli
It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder. Joseph Wood Krutch
Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down. George Eliot
Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge. Stephen Hawking
Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous. Vincent Van Gogh
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but a little want of knowledge is also a dangerous thing. Samuel Butler
The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side. James A. Baldwin
Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well but their manners should be of the greatest concern. R. Buckminster Fuller
He that hath knowledge spareth his words. Francis Bacon
To act on the belief that we possess the knowledge and the power which enable us to shape the processes of society entirely to our liking, knowledge which in fact we do not possess, is likely to make us do much harm. Friedrich August von Hayek
Some people drink from the fountain of knowledge, others just gargle. Robert Anthony
The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge. Rene Descartes
Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence. Louis Pasteur
The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall the desire of knowledge caused men to fall. Francis Bacon
The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable. Arthur Schopenhauer