Quotes About Knowledge

He slowed down a bit more. "Gaia, how do you know these things?" She shrugged. "I'm smart." "And modest, too." "Modesty is a waste of time," she pronounced. "I'll keep that in mind.

Teling a little would ultimately mean telling a lot.

I've always found that the better the book I'm reading, the smarter I feel, or, at least, the more able I am to imagine that I might, someday, become smarter.

The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall.

Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.

Truth ... is the sovereign good of human nature.

I have taken all knowledge to be my province.

Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.

Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

Knowledge is power [Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est].

Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

Science is but an image of the truth.

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

He that hath knowledge spareth his words.

We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power, or of the hands. For have not the verses of Homer continued twenty-five hundred years or more, without the loss of a syllable or letter; during which time infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities have been decayed and demolished?

The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.

Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.

But as young men, when they knit and shape perfectly, do seldom grow to a further stature, so knowledge, while it is in aphorisms and observations, it is in growth: but when it once is comprehended in exact methods, it may perchance, be further polished and illustrate and accommodated for use and practice; but it increaseth no more in bulk and substance.

Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.

Man, being the servant and interpreter of nature, can do and understand so much and so much only as he has observed in fact or in thought of the course of nature beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything.

No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of Truth.

Since one cannot know all there is to be known about everything,one needs to know something about everything.

Some books are to be tasted, others swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.

The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.