Quotes about Knowledge
The telephone book is full of facts but it doesn't contain a single idea.
- Mortimer Adler
As good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye.
- John Milton
Knowledge cannot defile, nor consequently the books, if the will and conscience be not defiled.
- John Milton
Common sense is in spite of, not the result of, education.
- Victor Hugo
Those who go to college and never get out are called professors.
- Anonymous
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from poor judgment.
- Anonymous
Nothing is more like a wise man than a fool who holds his tongue.
- Francis de Sales
The cultivated man, wise to know and bold to perform, is the end to which nature works.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it, at any rate, brag.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Younger theologians will continue to pursue and understand truth rather than deconstructing it, as a lot of their elders seemed to want to do.
- George Weigel
No degree of knowledge attainable by man is able to set him above the want of hourly assistance.
- Samuel Johnson
If you love to read, you can learn anything you really want to know.
- Zig Ziglar