Quotes about Knowledge

There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.

We have to know someone before we can truly love him. In order to know God, we must think about Him often. Once we get to know Him, we will think about Him even more often, because where our treasure is, there also is our heart!

It is only faith that makes me know Him as He is. By means of it I learn more about Him in a short time than I would learn in many years in the schools.

The aim of education. — Education: to discover but not merely to imitate. Learning techniques without inward experiencing can only lead to superficiality.

Independent inquiry is needed in your search for truth, not dependence on anyone else's view or a mere book

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

the man that wandereth out of the way of understanding shall remain (i.e. even while living) in the congregation of the dead.

Ignorance is the parent of fear.

But for anything deeper, I am not certain whether to know the world and to know human nature be not two distinct branches of knowledge, which while they may coexist in the same heart, yet either may exist with little or nothing of the other.

Science! Curse thee, thou vain toy!

But people seem to have a great love for names; for to know a great many names, seems to look like knowing a good many things; though I should not be surprised, if there were a great many more names than things in the world.

It's pleasant to sit by, a demi-god, and hear the surmisings of mortals, upon things they know nothing about; theology, or amber, or ambergris, it's all the same. But then, did I always out with every thing I know, there would be no conversing with these comical creatures.