What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.
Uncertainty that comes from knowledge (knowing what you don’t know) is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance.
To be proud of Knowledge, is to be blind with Light; to be proud of Virtue, is to poison yourself with the Antidote.
The search and striving for truth and knowledge is one of the highest of man’s qualities – though often the pride is most loudly voiced by those who strive the least.
The pursuit of knowledge is, I think, mainly actuated by love of power. And so are all advances in scientific technique.
The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
The knowledge of the past times and of the places of the earth is both an ornament and nutriment to the human mind.
Sorrow is Knowledge: they who know the most must mourn the deepest over the fatal truth, the Tree of Knowledge is not that of Life.
Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.[Wer zu viel weiß, für den ist es schwer nicht zu lügen.]
So long as God seems to be outside and far away, there is ignorance. But when God is realised within, that is true knowledge.
Science is the observation of things possible, whether present or past; prescience is the knowledge of things which may come to pass, though but slowly.
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
