Pastoral Resources

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.

A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.

Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.

I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions.

The mathematical facts worthy of being studied are those which, by their analogy with other facts, are capable of leading us to the knowledge of a physical law.

Scientia is knowledge. It is only in the popular mind that it is equated with facts.

Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge.

Others think it the responsibility of scientists to coerce the rest of society, because they have the power that derives from special knowledge.

I shall suggest, on the contrary, that all communication relies, to a noticeable extent on evoking knowledge that we cannot tell, and that all our knowledge of mental processes, like feelings or conscious intellectual activities, is based on a knowledge which we cannot tell.

I'm a very passionate believer in the unity of knowledge. There is one world of reality - one world of our experience that we're seeking to describe.

Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.

Imparting knowledge is only lighting other men's candles at our lamp without depriving ourselves of any flame.

As a species we are always hungry for new knowledge.

The knowledge that we have about what it is to be human that we have as a child is something we necessarily must lose.

Anyone who relies exclusively on television for his or her knowledge of the world is making a serious mistake.

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body.

Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.