Quotes about knowledge

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.

Often polished into "The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible."

I, at any rate, am convinced that He does not throw dice.

The origin of the shorthand "God does not play dice".

All men by nature desire to know.

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.

What do I know?

Ye were not made to live like unto brutes, but for pursuit of virtue and of knowledge.

Knowledge itself is power.

I think, therefore I am.

A little learning is a dang'rous thing.

Whoever does not know foreign languages knows nothing of his own.

If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.

An old image, used since the 12th century.

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

Sagan popularised it; similar wording was used earlier by Marcello Truzzi.

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself — and you are the easiest person to fool.