The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.

Real knowledge, like everything else of value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for, studied for, thought for, and, more that all, must be prayed for.

Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged; practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.

Research is creating new knowledge.

Can the knowledge deriving from reason even begin to compare with knowledge perceptible by sense?

If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are the conditions for development.

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.

You cannot simply put something new into a place. You have to absorb what you see around you, what exists on the land, and then use that knowledge along with contemporary thinking to interpret what you see.

We must always remember with gratitude and admiration the first sailors who steered their vessels through storms and mists, and increased our knowledge of the lands of ice in the South.

Allen Ginsberg was a world authority on the writing of William Blake, and had an incredible knowledge of classic literature and world politics.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti had a tremendous education as an artist and also an enormous knowledge of literarture.

The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.

Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.

To try to write a grand cosmical drama leads necessarily to myth. To try to let knowledge substitute ignorance in increasingly larger regions of space and time is science.