Quotes about Knowledge
Great is the faith of the flush of knowledge and of the investigation of the depths of qualities and things.
— Walt Whitman
It is characteristic of the unlearned that they are forever proposing something which is old, and because it has recently come to their own attention, supposing it to be new.
— Calvin Coolidge
Ultimately there can be no disagreement between history, science, philosophy, and theology. Where there is disagreement, there is either ignorance or error.
— Mortimer Adler
It is a fraud of the Christian system to call the sciences human invention; it is only the application of them that is human.
— Thomas Paine
When science is learned in love, and its powers are wielded by love, they will appear the supplements and continuations of the material creation.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The enemy of knowledge and science is irrationalism, not religion
— Stephen Jay Gould
Books to judicious compilers, are useful; to particular arts and professions, they are absolutely necessary; to men of real science, they are tools: but more are tools to them.
— Samuel Johnson
The science of a religious man must be scientific; the religion of a scientific man must be religious.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
Freedom, the first-born of science.
— Thomas Jefferson
I do not know whether you are fond of chemical reading. There are some things in this science worth reading.
— Thomas Jefferson
Medical science is as yet very imperfectly differentiated from common cure-mongering witchcraft
— George Bernard Shaw
Those things which are sacred, are to be imparted only to sacred persons; and it is not lawful to import them to the profane until they have been initiated in the mysteries of the science.
— Hippocrates