Quotes about Knowledge
People more often need to be reminded than informed.
— Samuel Johnson
Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
Don't you ever mind, she asked suddenly, not being rich enough to buy all the books you want?
— Edith Wharton
The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.
— Edith Wharton
She has been better educated than her sister, and has a more receptive mind. It seems as though someone had sown in a bare field a sprinkling of history, poetry, and pictures, and every seed had shot up in a flowery tangle.
— Edith Wharton
No treasure-house of Atreus was ever as rich as a well-stored memory.
— Edith Wharton
What could he and she really know of each other, since it was his duty, as a "decent" fellow, to conceal his past from her, and hers, as a marriageable girl, to have no past to conceal?
— Edith Wharton
But these mysteries, and many others, were closely locked in Mr. Jackson's breast; for not only did his keen sense of honour forbid his repeating anything privately imparted, but he was fully aware that his reputation for discretion increased his opportunities of finding out what he wanted to know.
— Edith Wharton
What's the use of making mysteries? It only makes people want to nose 'em out.
— Edith Wharton
It is our ignorance of things that causes all our admiration and chiefly excites our passions.
— Edmund Burke
When you erode the fear of death with the knowledge that you already died [in Christ], you will find yourself moving toward a simple, bold obedience.
— Edward Welch
Faith is not the presence of warm religious feeling. It's the knowledge that you walk before the God who hears.
— Edward Welch