Quotes about Knowledge
The philosopher says that God's knowledge is the measure of things, and that things are the measure of man's knowledge.
— Jacques Maritain
Ignorance is not bliss; it is defeat. If you are a Christian, you are the target. If
— Neil Anderson
18). If you want the truth to set you free, you have to know who the Truth is, not just what it is.
— Neil Anderson
Yes, I learned history at school; I know everything about apartheid. My dad, he bought the books about it, stuff like that. But I just move on with my life. It's completely different for me.
— Caster Semenya
The most learned are often the most narrow minded.
— William Hazlitt
Education is the cheap defense of nations.
— Edmund Burke
I thought how little interest the men before me had in the results of the war, and how little knowledge they had of "what it was all about.
— Ulysses S. Grant
There is in every village a torch - the teacher; and an extinguisher - the priest.
— Victor Hugo
He had, they said, tasted in succession all the apples of the tree of knowledge, and, whether from hunger or disgust, had ended by tasting the forbidden fruit.
— Victor Hugo
Science says the first word on everything, and the last word on nothing.
— Victor Hugo
In the meantime, let us study things that are no more. It is necessary to know them, if only for the purpose of avoiding them. The counterfeits of the past assume false names, and gladly call themselves the future. This specter, this past, is given to falsifying its own passport. Let us inform ourselves of the trap. Let us be on our guard. The past has a visage, superstition, and a mask, hypocrisy. Let us denounce the visage and let us tear off the mask.
— Victor Hugo
Die Wissenschaft muss mit glatten Wangen begonnen werden und nicht erst mit runzeligen, wenn man in ihr etwas erreichen will.
— Victor Hugo