Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance

Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

And last are the few whose delight is in meditation and understanding; who yearn not for goods, nor for victory, but for knowledge; who leave both market and battlefield to lose themselves in the quiet clarity of secluded thought; whose will is a light rather than a fire, whose haven is not power but truth: these are the men of wisdom, who stand aside unused by the world.

Knowledge is power, but only wisdom is liberty.

In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.