Quotes about Knowledge
If the fresh facts come to our knowledge all fit themselves into the scheme, then our hypothesis may gradually become a solution. Sherlock Holmes speaking with Dr. Watson.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
Science sans conscience n' est que le ruine de l'âme. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruine of the soule.
- Francois Rabelais
The shiny paint laid on by curiosity's hand has worn off. What thing better can a man know than the love of Christ, which passes knowledge?
- Jim Elliot
Knowledge, learning, is an eternal thing.
- Gordon Hinckley
Each time you learn something new you must readjust the whole framework of your knowledge
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Everybody liked better to conjecture how the thing was, than simply to know it; for conjecture soon became more confident than knowledge, and had a more liberal allowance for the incompatible.
- George Eliot
There is very little difference between one who cannot read and one who will not read.
- Jim Rohn
Knowledge is the antidote to fear. [especially as fear often stands for false evidence appearing real!]
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
An unsatisfied appetite for knowledge means progress and is the state of a normal mind.
- David O. McKay
A scrap of knowledge about sublime things is worth more than any amount about trivialities.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
Ignorance of impending evil is far better than a knowledge of its approach.
- Cicero
We owe to memory not only the increase of our knowledge, and our progress in rational inquiries, but many other intellectual pleasures
- Samuel Johnson