Quotes about Knowledge
The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.
— St. Augustine
The world is a great book; he who never stirs from home reads only a page.
— St. Augustine
To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of things eternal; to knowledge, the rational apprehension of things temporal.
— St. Augustine
Unless you believe, you will not understand.
— St. Augustine
Qui nescit Scripturas, nescit Dei virtutem, ejusque sapientiam. Ignoratio Scripturarum ignoratio Christi est. Quem ignora as Escrituras ignora o poder e a sabedoria de Deus. A ignorância das Escrituras é ignorância de Cristo.
— Saint Jerome
Just as it is better to illuminate than merely to shine, so to pass on what one has contemplated is better than merely to contemplate.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with.
— Samuel Johnson
Classical quotation is a parole of literary men all over the world.
— Samuel Johnson
Ignorance, when it is voluntary, is criminal; and he may be properly charged with evil who refused to learn how he might prevent it
— Samuel Johnson
What a strange narrowness of mind now is that, to think the things we have not known are better than the things we have known.
— Samuel Johnson
Every man wishes to be wise, and they who cannot be wise are almost always cunning.
— Samuel Johnson
The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things--the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.
— Samuel Johnson