Quotes About Knowledge

I have always had a special affinity for libraries and librarians, for the most obvious reasons. I love books. (One of my first Jobs was shelving books at a branch of the Chicago Public Library.) Libraries are a pillar of any society. I believe our lack of attention to funding and caring for them properly in the United States has a direct bearing on problems of literacy, productivity, and our inability to compete in today's world. Libraries are everyman's free university.

Reading's the means by which the lowest man can lift himself from a state of ignorance.

He said he would die an educated man if he didn't live long enough to die as a free one.

Learning is not easy, but hard; culture is severe. The steps to Parnassus are steep and terribly arduous.

Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself.

The average educated man in America has about as much knowledge of what a political idea is as he has of the principles of counterpoint. Each is a thing used in politics or music which those fellows who practice politics or music manipulate somehow. Show him one and he will deny that it is politics at all. It must be corrupt or he will not recognize it. He has only seen dried figs. He has only thought dried thoughts. A live thought or a real idea is against the rules of his mind.

fearing the worst is worse than knowing the worst.

Human knowledge is dark and uncertain philosophy is dark, astrology is dark, and geometry is dark.

As the body dieth when the soul departeth, so the soul of man dieth, when it hath not the knowledge of God.

The word of God is full of sad and grave counsel, full of the knowledge of God, of examples of virtues, and of correction of vices, of the end of this life, and of the life to come.

la plus belle des savants, la plus savante des belles

Cuando puede que conocer el pasado fuera una forma mucho mejor de anticipar el futuro.

procurar que entendiese que conocer los hechos no implica necesariamente comprenderlos.

Axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses: We read fine—things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the Author.

Philosophy will clip an angel's wings.

Knowledge enormous makes a God of me.Names, deeds, gray legends, dire events, rebellions,Majesties, sovran voices, agonies,Creations and destroyings, all at oncePour into the wide hollows of my brain,And deify me, as if some blithe wineOr bright elixir peerless I had drunk,And so become immortal.

Beauty is truth, truth beauty,'--that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. - Ode to a Grecian Urn

When old age shall this generation waste,Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woeThan ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say'st,"Beauty is truth, truth beauty,"—that is allYe know on earth, and all ye need to know.

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced—even a Proverb is no proverb to you till your Life has illustrated it.

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced -- even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it.

O fret not after knowledge -- I have none, and yet my song comes native with the warmth. O fret not after knowledge -- I have none, and yet the Evening listens.

Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know

I have good reason to be content, for thank God I can read and perhaps understand Shakespeare to his depths.

Beauty is truth, truth beauty. That is all ye know, and all ye need to know.