Quotes about Knowledge

Of the few innocent pleasures left to men past middle life, the jamming of common sense down the throats of fools is perhaps the keenest.

The bulk of mankind are schoolboys through life.

The dry knowledge of the three R's is not even now, it can never be, a permanent part of the villagers' life.

In reading and writing, you cannot lay down rules until you have learnt to obey them. Much more so in life.

Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.

Moreover, the papal system has opposed the march of civilization and liberty throughout the world, by denouncing the circulation of the Bible, and the general diffusion of knowledge. Turn to every land where popery predominates, and you will find an ignorant and debased peasantry, a profligate nobility, and a priesthood, licentious, avaricious, domineering and cruel.

I defy the pope, and all his laws;" and added, "If God spared him life, ere many years he would cause a boy that driveth the plough to know more of the Scripture than he did.

George Scherter, a minister of Salzburg, was apprehended and committed to prison for instructing his flock in the knowledge of the Gospel.

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced—even a Proverb is no proverb to you till your Life has illustrated it.

Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know

Our goal must be, not to gain a divine knowledge of reality, but to obtain a human knowledge sufficient to carry out whatever calling God has given each of us.

Getting the past wrong is almost as problematic as not getting the past into our minds at all.