...full extent of the evil...

"There is hardly a man clever enough to recognize the full extent of the evil he does." -Francois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld

...dumb, panicky dangerous animals...

"A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it. Fifteen hundred years ago everybody *knew* the Earth was the center of the universe. Five hundred years ago, everybody *knew* the Earth was flat ... Imagine what you'll know tomorrow." -Men in Black (movie)

...learning something new every day...

"Knowledge is learning something new every day. Wisdom is letting go of something every day." -Zen proverb

...woman's guess is much more accurate...

"A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty." -Rudyard Kipling; Plain Tales from the Hills

All knowledge is worth having...

"All knowledge is worth having." -Jacqueline Carey; Kushiel's Dart

Can wisdom be put...

"Can wisdom be put in a silver rod? / Or love in a golden bowl?" -William Blake; The Book of Thel

Wisdom cries in the streets...

"Wisdom cries in the streets, and no man regards it." -William Shakespeare

We are drowning in information...

"We are drowning in information, but starved for knowledge." -John Naisbilt

Whoever undertakes to set himself up...

"Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods." -Albert Einstein

I cannot teach anybody anything...

"I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think." -Socrates

Education is what survives...

"Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten." -B.F. Skinner

Colleges are places where pebbles...

"Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed." -Robert G. Ingersoll

It is important that students...

"It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it." -J. Bronowski; The Ascent of Man

I have been wrong before...

"I have been wrong before and will be again, my dear girl. Infallibility would be a bore." -Masterharper Robinton; The White Dragon

Power will intoxicate the best hearts...

"Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough, to be trusted with unlimited power." -Colton

There is no great genius...

"There is no great genius without a mixture of madness." -Aristotle

Strange how much you've got to know...

"Strange how much you've got to know before you know how little you know." -Unknown

I am enough of an artist...

"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world." -Albert Einstein