Quotes About Knowledge

The definition that "Truth is the equation of thought and thing" is applicable to it under either aspect.

It was necessary for man's salvation that there should be a knowledge revealed by God besides philosophical science built up by human reason.

Real knowledge, like everything else of value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for, studied for, thought for, and, more that all, must be prayed for.

To that class we may leave it to refine the vernacular dialects of the country, to enrich those dialects with terms of science borrowed from the Western nomenclature, and to render them by degrees fit vehicles for conveying knowledge to the great mass of the population.

Books are becoming everything to me. If I had at this moment any choice in life, I would bury myself in one of those immense libraries...and never pass a waking hour without a book before me.

I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read.

Every man who has seen the world knows that nothing is so useless as a general maxim.... If, like those of Rochefoucault, it be sparkling and whimsical, it may make an excellent motto for an essay. But few, indeed, of the many wise apophthegms which have been uttered from the time of the Seven Sages of Greece to that of Poor Richard have prevented a single foolish action.

What a blessing it is to love books as I love them;- to be able to converse with the dead, and to live amidst the unreal!

If anybody would make me the greatest king that ever lived, with palaces and gardens, and fine dinners, and wine and coaches, and beautiful clothes, and hundreds of servants, on condition that I would not read books, I would not be a king. I would rather be a poor man in a garret with plenty of books than a king who did not love reading.

Prizes given for subjects.

God give us grace to have the true knowledge of God and of ourselves.

The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.

You might have thought the colonel would be interested in my experiences of five years' barbarism, but he wasn't. I wasn't long in discovering that it is a rare person in the white world who wants to hear what the other fellow says, all the more so when the other fellow really knows what he is talking about.

So many read good books and get nothing, because they read them over cursorily, slightly, superficially.

You are wise, and know how to apply it.

In the deep discovery of the Subterranean world, a shallow part would satisfy some enquirers;

I intend no Monopoly, but a Community in Learning; I study not for my own sake only, but for theirs that study not for themselves.

methinks we yet discourse in Plato's den, and are but embryon philosophers.

If no other knowledge deserves to be called useful but that which helps to enlarge our possessions or to raise our station in society, then Mythology has no claim to the appellation.

Thus we hope to teach mythology not as a study, but as a relaxation from study to give our work the charm of a story-book, yet by means of it to impart a knowledge of an important branch of education.

Education is mostly about institutions and getting tickets stamped; learning is what we do for ourselves. When we're lucky, they go together. If I had to choose, I'd take learning.

We - as readers or writers, tellers or listeners - understand each other, we share knowledge of the structures of our myths, we comprehend the logic of symbols, largely because we have access to the same swirl of story. We have only to reach out into the air and pluck a piece of it.

If there are no books. There is no civilization.

The word grammar—the first step in the course of classical study that molded all educated men from Plato to Augustine—will be mispronounced by one barbarian tribe as "glamour." In other words, whoever has grammar—whoever can read—possesses magic inexplicable.