No matter how big mankind's store of knowledge seems
to me in comparison with our previous ignorance, it is only an infinitely small
part of all possible knowledge.
Socrates did not have the weakness of many scholars, the desire to
know about all possible things, to learn the origins and explanations of things
- what the Sophists call "the nature of things" - and to uncover the
origins of the celestial bodies. Socrates said, "Is it true that people
are so concerned with these earthly things? People wrongly think that they
should know everything. They think that they can despise the most necessary and
important fields of knowledge, and penetrate the mysteries that do not belong
to us."
— Xenophon
Not only is real
science not hostile to religion, in fact real science always supports it.
— John Ruskin
Knowledge is limitless, and the most scholarly and educated person is as far from
true knowledge as an uneducated peasant.
— John Ruskin
We cannot imagine the scope of our ignorance, just as a blind man cannot imagine
darkness until he can see.
— Immanuel Kant
It is better to know less than necessary than
to know more than necessary. Do
not fear the lack of knowledge,
but truly fear unnecessary knowledge which is acquired only to please vanity.
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