Now I feel as if I should succeed in doing something in mathematics, although I cannot see why it is so very important. . . The knowledge doesn't make life any sweeter or happier, does it?
I think we've tied acquiring knowledge too much to school
Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.
We have arranged for ourselves a world in which we can live - by positing bodies, lines, planes, causes and effects, motion and rest, form and content; without these articles of faith nobody could now endure life. But that does not prove them. Life is no argument. The conditions of life might include error.
Human knowledge is dark and uncertain; philosophy is dark, astrology is dark, and geometry is dark.
Knowledge is first and wisdom is the manifestation of knowledge. To understand this tone and pattern of thinking in the numerical way automatically resonated with me.
The knowledge which we have acquired ought not to resemble a great shop without order, and without an inventory; we ought to know what we possess, and be able to make it serve us in need.
Not to know what happened before one was born is always to be a child.
History is our guide, and without a knowledge of history, we are lost!
Abandon knowledge and your worries are over.
There is no knowledge without theory.
. . . in going over the history of all the inventions for which history could be obtained it became more and more clear that in addition to training and in addition to extensive knowledge, a natural quality of mind was also necessary.
One of the great problems of philosophy, is the relationship between the realm of knowledge and the realm of values. Knowledge is what is; values are what ought to be. I would say that all traditional philosophies up to and including Marxism have tried to derive the "ought" from the "is. " My point of view is that this is impossible, this is a farce.
Wisdom without love is like having lungs but no air to breathe. Do not seek wisdom in order to acquire knowledge but in order to live and love more fully.
Hereafter, in a better world than this, I shall desire more love and knowledge of you
A nice adaptation of conditions will make almost any hypothesis agree with the phenomena. This will please the imagination but does not advance our knowledge.
Knowledge is the rediscovering of our own insight.
To know one's ignorance is the best part of knowledge.
Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.
Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.
