Quotes About Knowledge

To learn what I know I have burned more midnight oil than you have drunk wine.

The smaller your reality, the more convinced you are that you know everything.

Experience is the best of schoolmasters, only the school fees are heavy

Histories are a kind of distilled newspapers.

Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.

Every human being has a right to hear what other wise human beings have spoken to him. It is one of the Rights of Men; a very cruel injustice if you deny it to a man!

That there should one Man die ignorant who had capacity for Knowledge, this I call a tragedy.

In books lies the soul of the whole Past Time: the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream.

In books lies the soul fo the whole past time.

May blessings be upon the head of Cadmus, the Phoenicians, or whoever it was that invented books.

Love is ever the beginning of knowledge as fire is of light.

The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

Intellect is not speaking and logicising; it is seeing and ascertaining.

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

Wondrous indeed is the virtue of a true Book.

Keine zauberwirkende Rune ist wunderbarer als ein Buch. Bücher sind das auserlesene Besitztum der Menschen.

The greatest university is a collection of books.

Books are a triviality. Life alone is great.

No magic Rune is stranger than a Book. All that Mankind has done, thought, gained or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of Books. They are the chosen possession of men.

Surely of all 'rights of man', this right of the ignorant man to be guided by the wiser, to be, gently or forcibly, held in the true course by him, is the indisputablest.

Does it ever give thee pause, that men used to have a soul- not by hearsay along, or as a figure of speech; but as a truth that they knew, and acted upon! Verily it was another world then... but yet it is a pity we have lost the tidings of our souls... we shall have to go in search of them again, or worse in all ways shall befall us.

There are impertinent inquiries made; your rule is, to leave the inquirer uninformed on the matter; not, if you can help it, misinformed, but precisely as dark as he was!

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