Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.

Quote by Isaac Asimov

Topics: Wisdom Quotes

The trouble is that racial stereotypes, unfavourable to everyone but white men of northwest European...

The trouble is that racial stereotypes, unfavourable to everyone but white men of northwest European...

People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who...

People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who...

It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.

It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.

It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I....

It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I....

It is not only the living who are killed in war.

It is not only the living who are killed in war.

Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be...

Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be...

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society...

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society...

Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and...

Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and...

Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.

Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.

I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life...

I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life...

I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.

I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.

No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the...

No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the...

How I want a drink, alcoholic of course, after the heavy lectures involving quantum mechanics!

How I want a drink, alcoholic of course, after the heavy lectures involving quantum mechanics!

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

Nothing interferes with my concentration. You could put on an orgy in my office and...

Nothing interferes with my concentration. You could put on an orgy in my office and...

I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would...

I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would...

I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.

I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander.

Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing...

Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing...

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society...

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society...

The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.

The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.