Quotes about Knowledge

It is a good plan to have a book with you in all places and at all times. If you are presently without, hurry without delay to the nearest shop and buy one of mine.

We study history not to be clever in another time, but to be wise always.

Many times the reading of a book has made the future of a man.

Colossians 1:10—14 and "walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God. . . . He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved Son, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.

Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all                       

Educating the head without educating the heart is no education at all.

It is this simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences—makes them, as the poets tell us, 'charm the crowd's ears more finely.' Educated men lay down broad general principles; uneducated men argue from common knowledge and draw obvious conclusions.

Men were first led to the study of philosophy, as indeed they are today, by wonder.

Learning begins at the level of the learner.

Happiness extends just as far as study extends, and the more someone studies, the happier he is.

It is the mark of an educated mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness where only an approximation is possible. Nicomachean Ethics