Quote of Isaac Asimov - The saddest aspect of life right...

Biography - Isaac Asimov:

Russian-American writer .
Born: 1920 - Died: 1992
Period:
20th century
Place of birth: Russian Federation

Quote

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

Translation

(French, German, Italian)

L'aspect le plus triste de notre vie aujourd'hui est que la science acquière les connaissances plus vite que la société n'acquière la sagesse.”
Isaac Asimov

Der traurigste Aspekt des Lebens derzeit ist, dass die Wissenschaft schneller Wissen sammelt, als die Gesellschaft Weisheit.”
Isaac Asimov

L'aspetto più triste della vita in questo momento è che la scienza raccoglie la conoscenza più velocemente di quanto la società raccolga la saggezza.”

Quotes about life:

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Faust: A Tragedy

There is more to life than increasing its speed.”
Mahatma Gandhi

life

To live means to love, but above all, to love life.”
Blanche Pierson

Give every day the chance to become the most beautiful day of your life.”
Mark Twain

Man arrives a novice at every age of life.”
Nicolas Chamfort - Maximes et pensées

My life is my message.”
Mahatma Gandhi

life

All about life...

Quotes for: to know:

We know accurately only when we know little; with knowledge, doubt increases.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Maxims and Reflections

Knowing is not enough; we must apply.
Willing is not enough; we must do.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Know or listen to those who know.”
Baltasar Gracian

to know

I know that I know nothing.”

to know

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.”
Carl Gustav Jung

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.”
Immanuel Kant

All for: to know...

Quotes about wisdom:

The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.”
Michel de Montaigne

wisdom

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.”
Epicurus

Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.”
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis - Satires

Silence is often the truest wisdom.”
Pindar

Human wisdom consists in a knowledge of the order in which it is profitable to know things;”
Leo Tolstoy

Wisdom is the daughter of experience.”
Leonardo da Vinci - Codex Forster

All about wisdom...

Quotes about science:

Every other knowledge is harmful to him who does not have knowledge of goodness.”
Michel de Montaigne - Essays

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.”
Immanuel Kant

Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.”
Paul Valéry

science

A theory which is not refutable by any conceivable event is non-scientific. Irrefutability is not a virtue of a theory (as people often think) but a vice.”
Karl Popper - Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge

Of all the human sciences, the science of man is the most worthy.”
Nicolas Malebranche - The Search after Truth

science

Antisthenes used to say that the most useful science was to unlearn evil.”
François Fénelon

All about science...

Quotes for: knowledge:

True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.”
Baltasar Gracian - The Art of Worldly Wisdom

Every other knowledge is harmful to him who does not have knowledge of goodness.”
Michel de Montaigne - Essays

Human wisdom consists in a knowledge of the order in which it is profitable to know things;”
Leo Tolstoy

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.”
Carl Gustav Jung

All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.”
Leonardo da Vinci

knowledge

There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge.”
Michel de Montaigne - Essays

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Quotes for: society :

Society is composed of two great classes those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.”
Nicolas Chamfort

society

Article IV – Liberty consists of doing anything which does not harm others: thus, the exercise of the natural rights of each man has only those borders which assure other members of the society the enjoyment of these same rights. These borders can be determined only by the law.”
- Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen of 1789

Article V – The law has the right to forbid only actions harmful to society. Anything which is not forbidden by the law cannot be impeded, and no one can be constrained to do what it does not order.”
- Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen of 1789

Article XV – The society has the right of requesting account from any public agent of its administration.”
- Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen of 1789

Article XVI – Any society in which the guarantee of rights is not assured, nor the separation of powers determined, has no Constitution.”
- Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen of 1789

when we say that a man is responsible for himself, we do not only mean that he is responsible for his own individuality, but that he is responsible for all men.”
Jean-Paul Sartre - Existentialism and Humanism

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Isaac Asimov also said...

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.”
Isaac Asimov

If anyone can be considered the greatest writer who ever lived, it is Shakespeare.”
Isaac Asimov

What I will be remembered for are the Foundation Trilogy and the Three Laws of Robotics.”
Isaac Asimov

The job of science will never be done, it will just sink deeper and deeper into never-ending complexity.”
Isaac Asimov

The dullness of fact is the mother of fiction.”
Isaac Asimov

Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.”
Isaac Asimov

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