Quotes About Knowledge

In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact.

Science is simply common sense at its best.

Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.

The medieval university looked backwards it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The modern university looks forward, and is a factory of new knowledge.

Ecclesiasticism in science is only unfaithfulness to truth.

No delusion is greater than the notion that method and industry can make up for lack of mother-wit, either in science or in practical life.

All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.

Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth.

Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth.

The more rapidly truth is spread among mankind the better it will be for them. Only let us be sure that it is the truth.

The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box.

A world of facts lies outside and beyond the world of words.

Agnosticism simply means that a man shall not say he knows or believes that for which he has no grounds for professing to believe.

Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense.

The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.

How can well-educated, high-income people be so naive about money? Because being a well-educated, high-income earner does not automatically translate into financial independence. It takes planning and sacrificing.

Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government; that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

No nation is permitted to live in ignorance with impunity

Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong

Information is the currency of democracy

To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.

We are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it.

Health is worth more than learning.