Quotes About Knowledge

The wise man through an excess of wisdom is made a fool.

Some men's words I remember so well that I must often use them to express my thought. Yes, because I perceive that we have heard the same truth, but they have heard it better.

The years teach much which the days never know.

a good reader makes a good book

The ancient precept, "Know thyself," and the modern precept, "Study nature," become at last one maxim.

This relation between the mind and matter is not fancied by some poet, but stands in the will of God, and so is free to be known by all men.

We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.

Undoubtedly we have no questions to ask which are unanswerable.

Each is liable to panic, which is, exactly, the terror of ignorance surrendered to the imagination.

No book has worth by itself, but by the relation to what you have from many other books, it weighs.

What's a book? Everything or nothing. The eye that sees it all.

Montaigne says, "Books are a languid pleasure," but I find certain books vital and spermatic, not leaving the reader what he was; he shuts the book a richer man. I would never willingly read any other than such.

thought can never ripen into truth.

The world -- this shadow of the soul, or other me, lies wide around. Its attractions are the keys which unlock my thoughts and make me acquainted with myself. I run eagerly into this resounding tumult...So much only of life as I know by experience...The true scholar grudges every opportunity of action past by, as a loss of power.

we are what we know.

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Empirical science is apt to cloud the sight, and by the very knowledge of functions and processes to bereave the student of the manly contemplation of the whole. The savant becomes unpoetic.

Is it not the true scholar the only true master?

natural science is likely to be soon exhausted. Passing by many particulars of the discipline

He is a dull observer whose experience has not taught him the reality and force of magic, as well as of chemistry.

Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst.

De multe ori, viitorul unui om a depins de lectura unei c?r?i.

Pomp and pretense have nothing to do with thought and knowledge. Gowns and diplomas cannot impart the least syllable of wisdom. Forget this, and our American universities will be impoverished even as they amass riches from their students and benefactors.

so much of nature as he is ignorant of,so much of his own mind does not yet posess