Quotes About Knowledge

No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him to find it within himself.

Public instruction should be the first object of government.

One thing I can guarantee you. You may not be a great deal wiser from my talk today, but you will be a great deal older.

Some people speak from experience, while others, from experience, don't speak.

Be not curious in unnecessary matters: for more things are shewed unto thee than men understand.

Seek not out the things that are too hard for thee, neither search the things that are above thy strength.

The bible should be taught so early and so thoroughly that it sinks straight to the bottom of the mind where everything that comes along can settle on it.

One man who has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.

Merely having an open mind is nothing. The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

Our ignorance of history makes us libel to our own times. People have always been like this.

The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present.

Truth has no beginning.

We are here and it is now. Further than that, all knowledge is moonshine.

A library is thought in cold storage.

Data data everywhere but not a thought to think.

All thought is a feat of association; having what's in front of you bring up something in your mind that you almost didn't know you knew.

What was once thought can never be unthought.

Facts in books, statistics in encyclopedias, the ability to use them in men's heads.

Belief is harder to shake than knowledge.

Learning without thought is labor lost.

The mind grows by what it feeds on.

As the Spanish proverb says, 'He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry the wealth of the Indies with him.' So it is with traveling. A man must carry knowledge with him if he would bring home knowledge.

As the Spanish proverb says, "He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies must carry the wealth of the Indies with him." So it is in traveling: a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.