Knowledge Quotes

"Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man."

"The greatest obstacle to human knowledge is the arrogance of supposing we already know."

"Knowledge without application is merely empty philosophy."

"The pursuit of truth requires the humility to admit what we do not know."

"Know thyself and in all things to thine own self be true."

"The establishment of a library was one of my earliest projects."

"I sought wisdom not in books but in the world itself."

"In the matter of education, I can say with truth that it opened my eyes to a broader universe."

"Understanding the Constitution is more important than the Constitution itself."

"Anybody can tell you the rules, but a good defense attorney tells you how to use them."

"Ignorance is the enemy of progress."

"Knowledge is the pathway from slavery to freedom."

"Ignorance of the Bible is the source of a thousand errors."

"Civilization is not inherited; it has to be learned."

"No man can be a good physician who has no knowledge of figures, mechanics, and engineering."

"I come from the South, where the cotton grows, and I know the condition of my people."

"We ought not to look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience."

"I have learned of slavery more than books could teach me."

"I taught myself to read the sky and the stars."

"The female mind has been cramped and compressed into the smallest possible space."

"Ignorance is not bliss; it is the root of all evil."

"A government that fears an educated citizenry is a government that should fear its own people."

"The improvements of the human mind have always been carried forward by those who toil not in the field or factory."

"The operation of the mind is experimental."

"The more we converse with strangers, the more we become enlightened."

"Everybody has asked the question, and they learned to ask it the first time they begin to read."

"Learning to read was like the dawn of day to me."

"Ignorance of the nature and causes of poverty contributes to the continuance of the evil."

"To be deeply reading and reflecting is to be something like a mountain that is crowned with eternal snows."

"Some knowledge comes to all men naturally; all men have moral perception."