Quotes about Knowledge
To know the laws is not to memorize their letter but to grasp their full force and meaning.
— Cicero
I was learning, as I did in the Ministry of Defense. I never knew, but I always learned.
— Shimon Peres
Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
— Thomas Henry Huxley
Try to learn something about everything.
— Thomas Henry Huxley
Every day is lost in which we do not learn something useful. Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time.
— Thomas Jefferson
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
— Thomas Jefferson
Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.
— Thomas Jefferson
Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error.
— Thomas Jefferson
A nation which expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, expects that which never was and never will be.
— Thomas Jefferson
the man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them, inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
— Thomas Jefferson
No people who are ignorant can be truly free.
— Thomas Jefferson
This institution will be based on the illimitable freedom of the human mind. For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it.
— Thomas Jefferson