Quotes About Knowledge

If Americans desire to be both ignorant and free, they want what never has been and what never will be.

He who knows best knows how little he knows

All is safe where all can read, is a quotation from Thomas Jefferson showing his belief in the importance of everyone knowing how to and being able/allowed to read. I would like to take it one step further. I would say, All is BETTER when all can read. No matter what you like to read, the ability to read it, understand it, and enjoy it, truly enriches your life.

History, by apprising [the people] of the past, will enable them to judge of the future.

Freedom, the first-born of science.

I cannot live without my books -

I have given up newspapers in exchange for Tacitus and Thucydides, for Newton and Euclid; and I find myself much the happier.

I can't live without books

I cannot live qithout books~ Thomas Jefferson

I can not live without books

wherever the people are well informed they can be trusted with their own government

It is safer to have a whole people respectably enlightened than a few in a high state of science and the many in ignorance.

The people are the only safe depositories of their own liberty, & they are not safe unless enlightened to a certain degree.

I cannot live without books. --Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)

Oskar has made it his business to know the full face of the system, the rabid face behind the veil of bureaucratic decency.

Rich is not having more money. Rich is knowing the secret to getting everything you want in life.

When Scythrop grew up, he was sent, as usual, to a public school, where a little learning was painfully beaten into him, and from thence to the university, where it was carefully taken out of him; and he was sent home like a well-threshed ear of corn, with nothing in his head.

It is most certainly a good thing that the world knows only the beautiful opus but not its origins, not the conditions of its creation; for if people knew the sources of the artist's inspiration, that knowledge would often confuse them, alarm them, and thereby destroy the effects of excellence. strange hours! strangely enervating labor! bizarrely fertile intercourse of the mind with a body!

Because man loves and honors man as long as he is not able to judge him, and desire is a product of lacking knowledge.

It is as well that the world knows only a fine piece of work and not also its origins, the conditions under which it came into being; for knowledge of the sources of an artist's inspiration would often confuse readers and shock them, and the excellence of the writing would be of no avail.

Mere knowledge of human psychology would in itself infallibly make us despondent if we were not cheered and kept alert by the satisfaction of expressing it.

Denn der Mensch liebt und ehrt den Menschen , solange er ihn nicht zu beurteilen vermag, und die Sehnsucht ist ein Erzeunis mangelhafter Erkenntnis.

Deep is the well of the past. Should we not call it bottomless?

Pues el hombre ama y respeta al hombre mientras no se halla en condiciones de juzgarlo, y el deseo vehemente es el resultado de un conocimiento imperfecto