“After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.”
Quotes about knowledge
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“The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.”
“A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.”
“The only source of knowledge is experience.”
“Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.”
“There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.”
“Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.”
“It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.”
“Knowledge is love and light and vision.”
“The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.”
“No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.”
“To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.”
“It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.”
“Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.”
“Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.”
“All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.”
“Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.”
“Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.”
“It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge.”
“True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.”
“All men by nature desire knowledge.”
“Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds.”
“Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.”
“Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance.”