Quotes
Quotes about Knowledge
Knowledge, in truth, is the great sun in the firmament. Life and power are scattered with all its beams.
Knowledge is the only fountain both of the love and the principles of human liberty.
Love is ever the beginning of Knowledge as fire is of light.
A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.
Knowledge by suffering entereth,
And life is perfected by death.
Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control,--
These three alone lead life to sovereign power.
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
Let knowledge grow from more to more.
Knowledge and timber should n't be much used till they are seasoned.
How hard it is to make an Englishman acknowledge that he is happy!
For I say this is death and the sole death,--
When a man's loss comes to him from his gain,
Darkness from light, from knowledge ignorance,
And lack of love from love made manifest.
Grace is given of God but knowledge is bought in the market.
Praised be the fathomless universe
For life and joy and for objects and knowledge curious;
And for love, sweet love--But praise! O praise and praise
For the sure-enwinding arms of cool-enfolding Death.
Others abide our question. Thou art free.
We ask and ask. Thou smilest and art still,
Out-topping knowledge.
If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is a man who has so much as to be out of danger?
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
We may live without poetry, music and art;
We may live without conscience and live without heart;
We may live without friends; we may live without books;
But civilized man can not live without cooks.
He may live without books,--what is knowledge but grieving?
He may live without hope--what is hope but deceiving?
He may live without love,--what is passion but pining?
But where is the man that can live without dining?
Ye marshes, how candid and simple and nothing-withholding and free
Ye publish yourselves to the sky and offer yourselves to the sea!
Tolerant plains, that suffer the sea and the rains and the sun,
Ye spread and span like the catholic man who hath mightily won
God out of knowledge and good out of infinite pain
And sight out of blindness and purity out of a stain.
Humble because of knowledge; mighty by sacrifice.
There was once, in a remote part of the East, a man who was altogether void of knowledge and experience, yet presumed to call himself a physician.
Indeed, what is there that does not appear marvellous when it comes to our knowledge for the first time? How many things, too, are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected?
Knowledge of divine things for the most part, as Heraclitus says, is lost to us by incredulity.
Alexander said, "I assure you I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion."
For what constitutes a child?--Ignorance. What constitutes a child?--Want of instruction; for they are our equals so far as their degree of knowledge permits.
