Topic
243 quotes about knowledge.
Inquiry is human, blind obedience brutal.
Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment the treasurer, of a wise man.
Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
Learning is the knowledge of that which is not generally known to others.
He that has never known adversity is but half acquainted with others, or with himself.
Man is a Tool-using Animal.
The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts.
Language gradually varies, and with it fade away the writings of authors who have flourished their allotted time.
There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.
When you sell a man a book you do not sell him just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue.
You sell him a whole new life.
Books are not merely books, they are the life blood of master spirits.
Many were the men whose towns he saw and whose mind he learnt.
Great wits are sure to madness near allied.
Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; He who would search for pearls must dive below.
The thinker serves it by his intellect, and as a light upon its path.
I keep up talk with myself about politics, love, taste, or philosophy;