"Lend money to an enemy, and thou will gain him, to a friend and thou will lose him."
Benjamin Franklin
125 Top-Notch Quotes About Knowledge
"Don't confuse facts with reality."
Robert Duane Ballard
(born June 30, 1942) is a former United States Navy officer and a professor of oceanography
at the University of Rhode Island who is most noted for his work in underwater archaeology: maritime archaeology and archaeology of
shipwrecks. He is most known for the discoveries of the wrecks of the RMS Titanic in 1985, the battleship Bismarck in 1989, and the aircraft
carrier USS Yorktown in 1998.
"Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false."
Charles Caleb Colton
(1780–1832) was an English cleric,writer and collector, well known for his eccentricities.
"You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing--that's what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something."
Richard Phillips Feynman
(May 11, 1918 – February 15, 1988) was an American physicist known for his work in the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics.
"The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance."
Socrates
(c. 469 BC–399 BC) was a Classical Greek Athenian philosopher. Credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy.
"Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason why it was up."
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
(29 May 1874 – 14 June 1936) was an English writer. His prolific and diverse output included philosophy, ontology, poetry, play writing, journalism, public lecturing and debating, biography, Christian apologetics, fantasy and detective fiction.
