Quotes about Knowledge
Blessed are they who seek to learn wisdom.
- Ezra Taft Benson
There is not anything that can so suddenly flood the mind with shame as the conviction of ignorance, yet we are all ignorant of nearly everything there is to be known.
- Hilaire Belloc
We are wiser than we know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When I read a good book, I wish my life were three thousand years long.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We mark with light in the memory the few interviews we have had with souls that made our souls wiser, that spoke what we thought, that told us what we knew, that gave us leave to be what we inly are.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Years teach much which the days never knew.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind, he has descended into the secrets of all minds.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson