Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [101-120] of 362 Knowledge quotesKnowledge QuotesKnowledge Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open.~ Sir James Dewar The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.~ Diogenes Ideas are indeed the most dangerous weapons in the world. Our ideas of freedom are the most powerful political weapons man has ever forged.~ William O. Douglas Where suspicion fills the air and holds scholars in line for fear of their jobs, there can be no exercise of the free intellect. Supineness and dogmatism take the place of inquiry. A problem can no longer be pursued to its edges. Fear stalks the classroom. The teacher is no longer a stimulant to adventurous thinking; she becomes instead a pipe line for safe and sound information. A deadening dogma takes the place of free inquiry. Instruction tends to become sterile; pursuit of knowledge is discouraged; discussion often leaves off where it should begin.~ William O. Douglas To educate a man is to unfit him to be a slave.~ Frederick Douglass Of all the tyrannies on human kind / the worst is that which persecutes the mind.~ John Dryden Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.~ Thomas A. Edison Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.~ Albert Einstein Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.~ Albert Einstein The restriction of knowledge to an elite group destroys the spirit of the society and leads to its intellectual impoverishment.~ Albert Einstein The important thing is never to stop questioning.~ Albert Einstein The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.~ Albert Einstein All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.~ Albert Einstein Imagination is more important than knowledge.~ Albert Einstein The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.~ Albert Einstein Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.~ George Eliot Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?~ T. S. Eliot Everything is backwards; everything is upside down. Doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the major media destroy information, and religions destroy spirituality.~ Michael Ellner A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.~ Ralph Waldo Emerson We must not believe the many, who say that only free people ought to be educated, but we should rather believe the philosophers who say that only the educated are free.~ Epictetus Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print