Quotes on Knowledge

Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; and love by love.

Nourish the mind like you would your body. The mind cannot survive on junk food.

Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.

That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along.

I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.

The society based on production is only productive, not creative.

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

No other success [in life] can compensate for failure in the home.

Pursue something so important that even if you fail, the world is better off with you having tried.

The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

Poets are masters of us ordinary men, in knowledge of the mind, because they drink at streams which we have not yet made accessible to science.

I am neither especially clever nor especially gifted. I am only very, very curious.

I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.

Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you think or as fast. There was a time when you didn't know what you know today.

Things have their roots and branches. Affairs have their beginnings and their ends. To know what is first and what is last will lead one near the Way.

There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.

Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.