Quotes about Knowledge
Education is not what a person is able to hold in his head, so much as it is what a person is able to find.I
— Booker T. Washington
Perhaps the most valuable thing that I got out of my second year was an understanding of the use and value of the Bible.
— Booker T. Washington
Before this I had never cared a great deal about it, but now I learned to love to read the Bible, not only for the spiritual help which it gives, but on account of it as literature.
— Booker T. Washington
Where they burn books, they will also ultimately burn people.
— Heinrich Heine
Where books are burned, in the end, people will eventually burn too
— Heinrich Heine
For three things I thank God every day of my life: thanks that he has vouchsafed me knowledge of his works; deep thanks that he has set in my darkness the lamp of faith; deep, deepest thanks that I have another life to look forward to--a life joyous with light and flowers and heavenly song.
— Helen Keller
I do not mean to object to a thorough knowledge of the famous works we read. I object only to the interminable comments and bewildering criticisms that teach but one thing: there are as many opinions as there are men.
— Helen Keller
When one reads hurriedly and nervously, having in mind written tests and examinations, one's brain becomes encumbered with a lot of bric-a-brac for which there seems to be little use.
— Helen Keller
Thus I came up out of Egypt and stood before Sinai, and a power divine touched my spirit and gave it sight, so that I beheld many wonders. And from the sacred mountain I heard a voice which said, 'Knowledge is love and light and vision.
— Helen Keller
The hand is defined as "the organ of apprehension." How perfectly the definition fits my case in both senses of the word "apprehend"! With my hand I seize and hold all that I find in the three worlds—physical, intellectual, and spiritual.
— Helen Keller
It is warm." True, they were broken and stammering syllables; but they were human speech. My soul, conscious of new strength, came out of bondage, and was reaching through those broken symbols of speech to all knowledge and all faith.
— Helen Keller
When man invents or produces anything of any value, volumes are written on the subject.
— Mother Angelica