Quotes about Knowledge

Foolish people ask you, when you speak what they do not wish to hear, How do you know it is the truth, and not an error of your own? We know the truth when we see it, from opinion, as we know when we are awake that we are awake.

a good reader makes a good book

The ancient precept, "Know thyself," and the modern precept, "Study nature," become at last one maxim.

This relation between the mind and matter is not fancied by some poet, but stands in the will of God, and so is free to be known by all men.

Each is liable to panic, which is, exactly, the terror of ignorance surrendered to the imagination.

What's a book? Everything or nothing. The eye that sees it all.

Montaigne says, "Books are a languid pleasure," but I find certain books vital and spermatic, not leaving the reader what he was; he shuts the book a richer man. I would never willingly read any other than such.

Goodreads could be a source for knowledge but instead does all readers a supreme disservice by allowing the spread of false quotes on the Internet.

We are all wise. The difference between persons is not in wisdom but in art. I knew, in an academical club, a person who always deferred to me; who, seeing my whim for writing, fancied that my experiences had somewhat superior; whilst I saw that his experiences were as good as mine. Give them to me and I would make the same use of them.

And, in fine, the ancient precept, "Know thyself," and the modern precept, "Study nature," become at last one maxim.

Is it a reply to these suggestions, to say, society is a Pestalozzian school; all are teachers and pupils in turn. We are equally served by receiving and by imparting. Men who know the same things, are not long the best company for each other.

The scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge