Quotes About Knowledge

Let knowledge grow from more to more,But more of reverence in us dwell;That mind and soul, according well,May make one music as before.

Wearing all that weightOf learning lightly like a flower.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

Much have I seen and known; cities of menAnd manners, climates, councils, governments,Myself not least, but honor'd of them all;And drunk delight of battle with my peers,Far on the ringing plains of windy Troy.I am a part of all that I have met;Yet all experience is an arch wherethroughGleams that untravel'd world.

What we learn with pleasure we never forget.

Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination.

In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory.

Learning preserves the errors of the past, as well as its wisdom. For this reason, dictionaries are public dangers, although they are necessities.

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

Learning is often spoken of as if we are watching the open pages of all the books which we have ever read, and then, when occasion arises, we select the right page to read aloud to the universe.

The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present. The present contains all that there is. It is holy ground; for it is the past, and it is the future.

Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance is the death of knowledge.

Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.

In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of a defeat; but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress towards a victory.

For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself or invested with some novelty of application to the new world of new times. Knowledge does not keep any better than fish. You may be dealing with knowledge of the old species, with some old truth; but somehow it must come to the students, as it were, just drawn out of the sea and with the freshness of its immediate importance.

Wisdom is the fruit of a balanced development.

Get your knowledge quickly and then use it. If you can use it you will retain it.

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Everything of importance has already been seen by someone who did not discover it.

That knowledge which adds greatness to character is knowledge so handled as to transform every phase of immediate experience.

Science is a river with two sources, the practical source and the theoretical source.

Only the adventurous can understand the greatness of the past. In its day, the literature of the past was an adventure. Aischylus, Sophocles, Euripides were adventurers in the world of thought. To read their plays without any sense of new ways of understanding the world and of savouring its emotions is to miss the vividness which constitutes their whole value. But adventures are to the adventurous. Thus a passive knowledge of the past loses the whole value of its message.

The merit of Locke 's 'Essay Concerning Human Understanding' is its adequacy, and not its consistency. . . He should have widened the title of his book into 'An Essay Concerning Experience.

Truth is born into this world only with pangs and tribulations, and every fresh truth is received unwillingly.