Quotes about Knowledge

If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.

Our science is a drop, our ignorance a sea.

Common sense is BETTER for one sphere of life, science for another, philosophic criticism for a third; but whether either be TRUER absolutely, Heaven only knows.

Rather do I fear to lose truth by this pretension to possess it already wholly.

The anointing puts you over, because you now belong in the Kingdom of wisdom and knowledge.

For me there has been no serious difficulty in reconciling the principles of true science with the principles of true religion, for both are concerned with the eternal verities of the universe. Believe everything scholars can strictly prove and suit yourself about the rest. Science has nothing to say one way or the other about whether there is a spirit…The evidence lies outside of our present scientific knowledge.

It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.

We are as much as we see. Faith is sight and knowledge. The hands only serve the eyes.

A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom. - from Live Without Principle

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty.

If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.