He who, while unacquainted with these writings, nevertheless knows by the natural light that there is a God having the attributes we have recounted, and who also pursues a true way of life, is altogether blessed.
— Theological-Political Treatise
Quotes About Knowledge
It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.
— Much Ado About Nothing
I make mistakes like the next man. In fact, being--forgive me--rather cleverer than most men, my mistakes tend to be correspondingly huger.
— Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
The more thoroughly a person understands life, the less he will mock, though in the end he might still mock the "thoroughness of his understanding.
— Human, All Too Human
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
— 1984
I've got a very nice staff here. People with patience, you know, and good temper, and not too brainy, because if you have people who are brainy, they are bound to be very impatient.
— By the Pricking of My Thumbs
Those who don't know must learn from those who do.
— The Republic
Falsity consists in the privation of knowledge, which inadequate, fragmentary, or confused ideas involve.
— Ethics
The fact that no limits exist to the destructiveness of this weapon [the 'Super', i.e. the hydrogen bomb] makes its very existence and the knowledge of its construction a danger to humanity as a whole. It is necessarily an evil thing considered in any light. For these reasons, we believe it important for the President of the United States to tell the American public and the world what we think is wrong on fundamental ethical principles to initiate the development of such a weapon.
Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.
— Sämtliche Werke: Kritische Studienausgabe in 15 Einzelbänden
There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
— Collected Works
Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance
— The Republic
For though men be ignorant, yet they are men
— Ethics
A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.
Ignorance is never better than knowledge.