The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
Source: Isaac Asimov and Jason A. Shulman’s “Isaac Asimov’s Book of Science and Nature Questions” (New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1988), page: 281.
The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
Source: Socrates, Apology; 22d–e. Complete Sentence: I went to the artisans, for I was conscious that I knew nothing at all, as I may say, and I was sure that they knew many fine things of which I was ignorant, and in this they certainly were wiser than I was. But I observed that even Read More…
The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.
Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None (1885) novel by Friedrich Nietzsche; Part I, Chapter 22: The Bestowing Virtue. Complete Sentence: Verily, I advise you: depart from me, and guard yourselves against Zarathustra! And better still: be ashamed of him! Perhaps he hath deceived you. The man of knowledge must be able Read More…
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The ego uses knowledge as a shield, a sword and a security blanket.
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Don’t work for my happiness… show me your achievement and the knowledge will give me the courage for mine.
Source: The Fountainhead (1943) is a novel by Ayn Rand, Part IV ( Howard Roark ). Complete Sentence: He had always wanted to write music, and he could give no other identity to the thing he sought. If you want to know what it is, he told himself, listen to the first phrases of Tchaikovsky’s Read More…