Quotes About Knowledge

Freedom begins where it ends ignorance

Science says the first word on everything, and the last word on nothing.

Now, one cannot read nonsense with impunity.

Les livres sont des amis froids et sûrs.

The true division of humanity is this: the luminous and the dark. To diminish the number of the dark, to increase the number of the luminous, there is the aim.That is why we cry: education, knowledge! to learn to read is to kindle a fire; every syllable spelled sparkles. But whoever say light does not necessarily say joy. There is suffering in light; an excess burns. Flames is hostile to the wing. To burn and yet to fly, this is the miracle of genius

So long as ignorance and misery remain on earth, books like this cannot be useless.

He never went out without a book under his arm and he often came home with two.

In the meantime, let us study things that are no more. It is necessary to know them, if only for the purpose of avoiding them. The counterfeits of the past assume false names, and gladly call themselves the future. This specter, this past, is given to falsifying its own passport. Let us inform ourselves of the trap. Let us be on our guard. The past has a visage, superstition, and a mask, hypocrisy. Let us denounce the visage and let us tear off the mask.

and when one says student, one says Parisian: to study in Paris is to be born in Paris.

A book is so soon made, costs so little, and may go so far! Why should we surprised that all human thought flows that way?

He had a small but well stocked library. He loved books; books are a remote but reliable friend.

I mean that man is ruled by a tyrant whose name is Ignorance, and that is the tyrant I sought to overthrow. That is the tyrant which gave birth to monarchy, and monarchy is authority based on falsehood, whereas knowledge is authority based on truth. Man should be ruled by knowledge.

Books are remote but reliable friends.

Terminar este duelo, amalgamar la idea pura con la realidad humana, hacer penetrar pacíficamente el derecho en el hecho y e hecho en el derecho, es el trabajo de los sabios.

It is a shame that I am ignorant, otherwise I would quote to you a mass of things; but I know nothing.

Intellectual and moral growth is no less indispensable than material improvement. To know is a sacrament, to think is the prime necessity, truth is nourishment as well as grain. A reason which fasts from science and wisdom grows thin.

He felt that to increase his knowledge was to strengthen his hatred. Under certain circumstances, instruction and enlightenment may serve as rallying points for evil.

He loved books; books are cold but safe friends. In

many mouths which talk, and very few heads which think.

To teach reading, means to light the fire; every syllable spelled out sparkles.

Always and everywhere people are to be found who have seen everything.

Diamonds are found only in the dark places of the earth; truths are found only in the depths of thought

Teach those who are ignorant as many things as possible; society is culpable

To learn to read is to light a fire;