Quotes About Knowledge

The justification for a university is that it preserves the connection between knowledge and the zest of life, by uniting the young and the old in the imaginative consideration of learning.

I talk about a Christianity that is enlightened enough to separate spirituality from the rest of life. Not just church and state, but knowledge and church.

It is important early in life to acquire the power of reading sense wherever you happen to be.

We who have been true readers all our life fully realize the enormous of our being which we owe to authors.

The most powerful person in your life is the one that knows all your secrets and all your lies.

It may be that the life I desire for her no longer even exists, yet I know what she does not. That there is nothing to lose.

I've been through a lot. I've thought a lot about life, and I've spent a lot of time studying history and science.

An adult friend of Lincoln's: "Life was to him a school.

Building a godly life on the sand of scriptural illiteracy is impossible.

It is only after a fair portion of one's life that one really knows what are the things that matter, the things that will remain until the end.

The great and glorious masterpiece of humanity is to know how to live with a purpose.

I think that if writers don't speak about real life, it's because they don't know it.

You can't retrieve you life (unless you're on Wikipedia, in which case you can retrieve an inaccurate version of it).

It is necessary to be humble in order to learn.

The day you think you know, your death has happened - because now there will be no wonder and no joy and no surprise. Now you will live a dead life.

By degrees we may come to know the primitive sense of the permanent objects of nature, so that the world shall be to us an open book, and every form significant of its hidden life and final cause.

You take the books, you lie there in the pools of light and you drink life. That is how intensely I have loved libraries.

There hasn't been a day in my life since I started Latin in ninth grade that I haven't benefited by the lives of the ancients.

Read, but not to remember everything. Read because that 1% that you remember has the potential to change your life.

It is important to gain knowledge, yes, but any advantage we will have in the eternal life to come will be a knowledge, I am sure, of those saving principles upon which our eternal life will depend.

Life is the great teacher.

The word of God is full of sad and grave counsel, full of the knowledge of God, of examples of virtues, and of correction of vices, of the end of this life, and of the life to come.

To the wise man, to the wise nation, the mistakes of the past are the torches of the present.

Knowledge of life in the astral world leads us to a conclusion of fundamental importance, namely that the physical world is the product of the astral world.