Knowledge Quotes

"The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it."

"One must learn everything, so that one can scorn nothing."

"The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts."

"Facts are the air of all action. Without them a man cannot accomplish anything."

"The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts."

"The mind of man is capable of anything because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future."

"The thoughtless and the ignorant have not that great and mighty instrument—the press."

"Knowledge by suffering entereth."

"The mind, once expanded, never fully contracts."

"All knowledge begins with wonder."

"Knowledge is not the same as wisdom; one is gathering information, the other its application."

"The greatest discoveries often come from the most naive questions."

"All that we know is nothing in comparison with all that remains unknown"

"I have always believed that the end of life is not happiness but knowledge"

"One man's life or death were but a small price to pay for the acquirement of the knowledge which I sought."

"Power is acquired by experience, not by theory."

"Knowledge without compassion is dangerous."

"The mind feeds upon great thoughts."

"Where the telescope ends, the microscope begins."

"We are made wise not by recollection of our past, but by responsibility for our future."

"Doubt is the key to knowledge."

"I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!"

"I cannot attempt to describe the quickness of my perception in this case."

"To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant."

"Memory is the treasury of the mind."

"Knowledge is power, but wisdom is knowing when to use it."

"Knowledge without action is mere philosophy."

"The highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and to quietly revere what is unknowable."

"Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect."

"Ignorance is not innocence but sin."