Knowledge Quotes

"The highest good of the mind is to understand things by the third kind of knowledge."

"The more we understand particular things in their relations to the whole, the closer we come to truth."

"In the presence of adequate ideas, passive emotions transform into active understanding."

"Wonder and surprise are the effects of novelty upon ignorant minds."

"The progress of society depends upon the cultivation of knowledge and the exercise of virtue among all classes of people."

"Knowledge is power."

"Curiosity is the lust of the mind."

"The desire of man for learning is an endless pursuit."

"The pursuit of knowledge is the pursuit of immortality."

"Knowledge is the weapon of the free."

"Un pueblo ignorante es un instrumento ciego de su propia destrucción."

"Un hombre sin educación es como un árbol sin frutos."

"Un pueblo educado es un pueblo libre."

"El conocimiento es la herencia más valiosa de una nación."

"La educación es la llave que abre todas las puertas."

"Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours."

"The great art of study is to learn what to omit."

"We must renounce the theory that the mind is furnished with a set of ideas."

"The understanding exerts itself after two different ways."

"Every impression is accompanied by a corresponding idea."

"Knowledge is the foundation upon which all great nations are built."

"Un pueblo sin educación es un pueblo sin futuro."

"El verdadero conocimiento humilla al sabio."

"La ignorancia es el peor tirano."

"Knowledge is power, but only when it is applied with wisdom."

"In matters of fact, experience is the only guide."

"The pursuit of knowledge is the pursuit of power over nature."

"Understanding requires the humility to admit what we do not know."

"In so far as the Mind understands all things as necessary, it has a certain power of affecting the emotions."

"The more we understand individual things, the more we understand God."