Knowledge Quotes

"A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life."

"What buildings have you erected? Have you erected a magnificent library?"

"The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty."

"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest."

"The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance."

"A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one."

"The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark."

"Ignorance is preferable to error."

"The continual accumulation of knowledge is the only thing that separates us from the beasts."

"Promote then as an object of primary importance institutions for general education."

"When the search for truth is confused with political advocacy, the pursuit of knowledge is debased."

"The value of knowledge is measured by its application to human welfare."

"The capacity to reason is what separates man from the beasts."

"Knowledge without action is merely empty philosophy."

"The mind, once enlightened, cannot willingly return to darkness."

"Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives."

"The enlargement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty."

"Where there is knowledge, there is power."

"The mind must be strengthened as well as the body."

"There is a great difference between an open question and a settled one."

"When you assemble a number of men to have the advantage of their joint wisdom, you inevitably assemble with those men all their prejudices."

"The preservation of the means of knowledge among the lowest ranks is of immense importance to the happiness of this country."

"Ignorance itself is more dangerous than Satan himself."

"The habit of reading is the foundation of all moral and intellectual excellence."

"Let it be known to the world that nothing can be more destructive than ignorance."

"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest."

"The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance."

"Doubt is the key to knowledge."

"Reading makes a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man."

"The best doctor is a book."