Inspirational Quotes on Knowledge

“Поэтому сказано: если знаешь врага и знаешь себя, твоя победа будет несомненна. Если знаешь Небо и знаешь Землю, твоя победа будет полной.”

“Every woman is a science; for he that plods upon a woman all his life long, shall at length finde himself short of the knowledge of her.”

“Truth is not an object to be possessed; it is a living thing recognized, cultivated by the mind and heart.”

“Only by investing and speaking your vision with passion can the truth, one way or the other, finally penetrate the reluctance of the world.”

“A man who truly knows himself realizes his own worthlessness, and takes no pleasure in the praises of men.”

“Is it not knowledge that doth alone clear the mind of all perbutations?”

“He is wise who knows the sources of knowledge - who knows who has written and where it is to be found.”

“Knowledge that terminates in curiosity and speculation is inferior to that which is useful; and of all useful knowledge that is the most so which consists in a due care and just notion of ourselves.”

“It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge.”

“The true knowledge or science which exists nowhere but in the mind itself, has no other entity at all besides intelligibility; and therefore whatsoever is clearly intelligible, is absolutely true.”

“Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eternal, immutable and increased wisdom of God.”

“The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.”

“Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.”

“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.”

“The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.”

“Knowledge is power.”

“In conversation, humor is worth more than wit and easiness more than knowledge.”

“Knowledge is but folly unless it is guided by grace.”

“Knowledge is love and light and vision.”

“Knowledge, not improved and well employed, will only increase our condemnation at the last day.”