Quotes about Knowledge

Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.

Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth.

The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box.

In science, as in art, and, as I believe, in every other sphere of human activity, there may be wisdom in a multitude of counsellors, but it is only in one or two of them.

A book has but one voice, but it does not instruct everyone alike.

Every man naturally desires knowledge; but what good is knowledge without fear of God? Indeed a humble rustic who serves God is better than a proud intellectual who neglects his soul to study the course of the stars.He who knows himself well becomes mean in his own eyes and is not happy when praised by men.

Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.

Man cannot make principles, he can only discover them.

Reason obeys itselt; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.

Where knowledge is a duty, ignorance is a crime.

As to the learning that any person gains from school education, it serves only, like a small capital, to put him in a way of beginning learning for himself afterward.

Since, then, man cannot make principles, from whence did he gain a knowledge of them, so as to be able to apply them, not only to things on earth, but to ascertain the motion of bodies so immensely distant from him as all the heavenly bodies are? From whence, I ask, could he gain that knowledge, but from the study of the true theology?