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.
Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations Library, 1997.
-- Isaac Asimov, (Jan 2 1920-1992), US science writer, science-fiction writer; He was a prolific non-fiction and SF author who created the robotic laws and the Foundation series.