Knowledge Quote by Carl Sagan

Inquisitive people aren't really very attractive, are they?

— Helen Clark MacInnes

The human race is inquisitive about other people's lives, but negligent to correct their own.

— Saint Augustine

All of us cherish our beliefs. They are, to a degree, self-defining. When someone comes along who challenges our belief system as insufficiently well-based…

— Carl Sagan

We are rare and precious because we are alive, because we can think as well as we can. We are privileged to influence and…

— Carl Sagan

Our posturings, our imagined self-importance , the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe are challenged by this point of pale light.

— Carl Sagan

The values of science and the values of democracy are concordant, in many cases indistinguishable. Science and democracy began - in their civilized incarnations…

— Carl Sagan

“Al-Askarî gives examples of the high esteem shown to scholars and the important position in society they occupy, often in spite of their lowly…

— Franz Rosenthal

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering…

— Bertrand Russell

Intelligence is one of the greatest human gifts. But all too often a search for knowledge drives out the search for love. This is…

— Daniel Keyes

I think within our music there is a real strong idea of search, search for identity, search for place, search for time, search for…

— Jim Kerr

In an honest search for knowledge, you quite often have to abide by ignorance for an indefinite period.

— Erwin Schrodinger

“But I've learned that intelligence alone doesn't mean a damned thing. Here in your university, intelligence, education, knowledge, have all become great idols. But…

— Daniel Keyes