Knowledge is power. [ Bacon ]

Sorrow is knowledge. [ Byron ]

Knowledge is no burthen. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Love furthers knowledge. [ Proverb ]

One cannot know everything. [ Horace ]

Dress does not give knowledge. [ Yriarte ]

Pedantry is paraded knowledge. [ H. W. Shaw ]

Knowledge is our ultimate good. [ Socrates ]

Knowledge exists to be imparted. [ Emerson ]

Knowledge by suffering endureth,
And life is perfected by Death. [ Mrs. Browning ]

He who knows much has many cares. [ Lessing ]

Step by step lift bad to good,
Without halting, without rest.
Lifting Better up to Best;
Planting seeds of knowledge pure.

So nigh is grandeur to our dust,
So nigh is God to man.
When Duty whispers low, Thou must,
The youth replies, I can. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Knowledge is essential to freedom. [ William Ellery Channing ]

Experience is retrospect knowledge. [ Hosea Ballou ]

Knowledge descries; wisdom applies. [ Quarles ]

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. [ Tennyson ]

Make knowledge circle with the winds;
But let her herald, Reverence, fly
Before her to whatever sky
Bear seed of men and growth of minds. [ Alfred Tennyson ]

Knowledge in youth is sapience in age. [ Proverb ]

Knowledge renders a crime inexcusable. [ Proverb ]

I take all knowledge to be my province. [ Bacon ]

Human knowledge is the parent of doubt. [ Greville ]

Half-knowledge is Worse than lgnorance. [ Macaulay ]

Diffused knowledge immortalizes itself. [ Sir James Mackintosh ]

Sweet food of sweetly uttered knowledge. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

Action is the proper fruit of knowledge. [ Proverb ]

Experience is the only genuine knowledge. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Knowledge is folly unless grace guide it. [ George Herbert ]

He that hath knowledge spareth his words. [ Bible ]

Wit does not take the place of knowledge. [ Vauvenargues ]

Doubting charms me not less than knowledge. [ Dante ]

Knowledge is more than equivalent to force. [ Samuel Johnson ]

If knowledge is power, patience is powerful. [ Robert Hall ]

A sea before
The Throne is spread; - its pure still glass
Pictures all earth-scenes as they pass.
We, on its shore,
Share, in the bosom of our rest,
God's knowledge, and are blest. [ Cardinal Newman ]

Grief should be the instructor of the wise;
Sorrow is knowledge: they who know the most
Must mourn the deepest o'er the fatal truth,
The Tree of Knowledge is not that of Life. [ Byron ]

Half our knowledge we must snatch, not take. [ Pope ]

Search not to find what lies too deeply hid;
Nor to know things whose knowledge is forbid. [ Denham ]

Apothegms form a short cut to much knowledge. [ Thomas Hood ]

Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one,
Have ofttimes no connection. Knowledge dwells
In heads replete with thoughts of other men;
Wisdom, in minds attentive to their own. [ William Cowper ]

Zeal without knowledge is fire without light. [ Proverb ]

He that increaseth knowledge increases sorrow. [ Bible ]

Knowledge advances by steps, and not by leaps. [ Macaulay ]

Reason and knowledge, the highest might of man! [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much;
Wisdom is humble that he knows no more. [ William Cowper ]

For man loves knowledge, and the beams of truth
More welcome touch his understanding's eye,
Than all the blandishments of sound his ear,
Than all of taste his tongue. [ Akenside ]

These taught us how to live; and (oh, too high
The price for knowledge!) taught us how to die. [ Thomas Tickell ]

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless. [ Johnson ]

Men speak from knowledge, women from imagination. [ Rousseau ]

The only jewel which will not decay is knowledge. [ John Alfred Langford ]

All great poets have been men of great knowledge. [ Bryant ]

Our knowledge is our power, and God our strength. [ Southey ]

Knowledge is boundless, - human capacity, limited. [ Chamfort ]

He that imagines he has knowledge enough has none. [ Proverb ]

How shall I speak thee, or thy power address,
Thou god of our idolatry, the Press?
By thee, religion, liberty, and laws,
Exert their influence, and advance their cause:
By thee, worse plagues than Pharaoh's land befell.
Diffused, make earth the vestibule of hell;
Thou fountain, at which drink the good and wise,
Thou ever bubbling spring of endless lies,
Like Eden's dread probationary tree.
Knowledge of good and evil is from thee! [ Cowper ]

To know how to dissemble is the knowledge of kings. [ Richelieu ]

Novelty is the foundation of the love of knowledge. [ Sydney Smith ]

Opinion is a medium between knowledge and ignorance. [ Plato ]

Knowledge is the parent of love; wisdom, love itself. [ J. C. and A. W. Hare ]

Men must read for amusement as well as for knowledge. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]

Be ignorance thy choice where knowledge leads to woe. [ Beattie ]

Carelessness does more harm than a want of knowledge. [ Franklin ]

Knowledge, love, power, - there is the complete life. [ Amiel ]

Knowledge makes one laugh, but wealth makes one dance. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Knowledge, without practice, makes but half an artist. [ Proverb ]

They are the heritage that glorious minds
Bequeath unto the world! — a glittering store
Of gems, more precious far than those he finds
Who searches miser's hidden treasures over.
They are the light, the guiding star of youth.
Leading his spirit to the realms of thought,
Pointing the way to Virtue, Knowledge, Truth,
And teaching lessons, with deep wisdom fraught.
They cast strange beauty round our earthly dreams,
And mystic brightness over our daily lot;
They lead the soul afar to fairy scenes,
Where the world's under visions enter not;
They're deathless and immortal — ages pass away,
Yet still they speak, instruct, inspire, amidst decay! [ Emeline S. Smith ]

How surely a knowledge of the world hardens the heart! [ Calderon ]

No tyrant can take from you your knowledge and wisdom. [ Proverb ]

Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it. [ Proverb ]

Knowledge is the foundation and source of good writing. [ Horace ]

There is much more learning than knowledge in the world. [ Proverb ]

Nobody has a right to have opinions, but only knowledge. [ John Ruskin ]

They have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge. [ Bible ]

A pilot is not chosen for his riches, but his knowledge. [ Proverb ]

Want of care does us more damage than want of knowledge. [ Proverb ]

Faith is not the beginning, but the end of all knowledge. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Government of the will is better than increase of knowledge. [ Proverb ]

He that boasts of his own knowledge proclaims his ignorance. [ Proverb ]

He who binds his soul to knowledge steals the key of heaven. [ N. P. Willis ]

Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased. [ Bible ]

Perfect experience must itself embrace theoretical knowledge. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. [ William Hazlitt ]

Once thoroughly our own, knowledge ceases to give us pleasure. [ John Ruskin ]

Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge? [ Bible ]

Knowledge of our duties is the most useful part of philosophy. [ Whately ]

Books have brought some men to knowledge, and some to madness. [ Petrarch ]

Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power. [ Horace Mann ]

Ability in a man is knowledge which emanates from divine light. [ Zoroaster ]

God grant you fortune, my son, for knowledge avails you little. [ Spanish Proverb ]

Zeal without knowledge is like expedition to a man in the dark. [ Newton ]

The Lord is a God of knowledge, and by Him actions are weighed. [ I Samuel ii. 3 ]

The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it. [ Locke ]

Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel. [ Hare ]

Knowledge directs practice; but yet practice increases knowledge. [ Proverb ]

Nature has given us the seeds of knowledge, not knowledge itself. [ Seneca ]

A wise man is strong; yea, a man of knowledge increaseth strength. [ Bible ]

Seraphs share with thee knowledge; but art, O man, is thine alone! [ Schiller ]

To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge. [ Benj. Disraeli ]

Knowledge and timber shouldn't be much used till they are seasoned. [ Oliver Wendell Holmes ]

He who exercises wisdom exercises the knowledge which is about God. [ Epictetus ]

Knowledge is like money, - the more a man gets, the more he craves. [ H.W. Shaw ]

A great fondness for animals often results from a knowledge of men.

Is then your knowledge to pass for nothing unless others know of it?

Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. [ St. Paul ]

The first step to self-knowledge is self-distrust
Nor can we attain to any kind of knowledge, except by a like process. [ J. C and A. W. Hare ]

If I die tomorrow, my life will be somewhat the sweeter for knowledge. [ Owen Feltham ]

The knowledge of the charms one possesses prompts one to utilize them. [ Senancourt ]

The tongue of the wise useth knowledge aright, and is as choice silver. [ Bible ]

Knowledge begins a gentleman, but it is conversation that completes him. [ Proverb ]

I envy no man that knows more than my self, but pity them that know less. [ Sir Thomas Browne ]

What we know here is very little, but what we are ignorant of is immense. [ La Place ]

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance. [ Spurgeon ]

The gods know all countries; by navigation we equal the gods in knowledge. [ Pharaoh Neclues ]

Prudence is the knowledge of things to be sought, and those to be shunned. [ Cicero ]

The cultivation of the mind is a kind of food supplied for the soul of man. [ Cicero ]

We know accurately only when we know little; with knowledge doubt increases. [ Goethe ]

It is almost as difficult to make a man unlearn his errors as his knowledge. [ Colton ]

A woman can be held by no stronger tie than the knowledge that she is loved. [ Mme. de Motteville ]

The bounds of a man's knowledge are easily concealed, if be has but prudence. [ Goldsmith ]

A knowledge of mankind tends to induce a want of faith in virtue and probity. [ C. J. Weber ]

Ignorance is the curse of God, knowledge the wing wherewith we fly to heaven. [ William Shakespeare ]

Experience is a text to which reflection and knowledge supply the commentary. [ Arthur Schopenhauer ]

Not alone to know, but to act according to thy knowledge, is thy destination. [ Fichte ]

A circulating library in a town is an ever-green tree of diabolical knowledge. [ Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan ]

To learn by observation is traveling, people must also bring knowledge with them. [ Bayard Taylor ]

The mines of knowledge are oft laid bare through the forked hazel wand of chance. [ Tupper ]

In much wisdom is much grief, and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow. [ Bible ]

Knowledge which is divorced from justice may be called cunning rather than wisdom. [ Cicero ]

Great knowledge, if it be without vanity, is the most severe bridle of the tongue. [ Jeremy Taylor ]

If we do not plant knowledge when young, it will give us no shade when we are old. [ Lord Chesterfield ]

Pedants, who have the least knowledge to be proud of, are impelled most by vanity. [ Wilkie Collins ]

Not only is there an art in knowing a thing, but also a certain art in teaching it. [ Cicero ]

Knowledge is the only fountain, both of the love and the principles of human liberty. [ Daniel Webster ]

That one man should die ignorant who had capacity for knowledge, this I call tragedy. [ Carlyle ]

Each excellent thing, once well learned, serves for a measure of all other knowledge. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

And thou my minde aspire to higher things; Grow rich in that which never taketh rust. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

He that has sense knows that learning is not knowledge, but rather the art of using it. [ Richard Steele ]

Knowledge is the hill which few; may hope to climb; duty is the path that all may tread. [ Lewis Morris ]

The instruction of the foolish is a waste of knowledge; soap cannot wash charcoal white. [ Kabir ]

The mind of man is this world's true dimension; and knowledge is the measure of the mind. [ Greville ]

All other knowledge is hurtful to him who has not the science of honesty and good-nature. [ Montaigne ]

In friendship, as in love, we are often happier through our ignorance than our knowledge. [ William Shakespeare ]

The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners. [ T. B. Macaulay ]

At the bottom of the faith-sea lies the pearl of knowledge; happy the diver that finds it. [ Bodenstedt ]

Man has still more desire for beauty than knowledge of it; hence the caprices of the world. [ X. Doudan ]

Without eyes thou shalt want light: profess not the knowledge therefore that thou hast not. [ Ecclus ]

The experience of others adds to our knowledge, but not to our wisdom; that is dearer-bought. [ Hosea Ballou ]

That there should one man die ignorant who had capacity for knowledge, this I call a tragedy. [ Carlyle ]

All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price. [ Juvenal ]

No knowledge is lost, but perfected, and changed for much nobler, sweeter, greater knowledge. [ Baxter ]

It is the glorious prerogative of the empire of knowledge, that what it gains it never loses. [ Daniel Webster ]

The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance. [ Confucius ]

Pedants are men who would appear to be learned, without the necessary ingredient of knowledge. [ Bancroft ]

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it. [ Sterne ]

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding. [ Bible ]

There seems to be no part of knowledge in fewer hands than that of discerning when to have done. [ Swift ]

The devil never assails a man except he finds him either void of knowledge or of the fear of God. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Under the weight of his knowledge, a man cannot move so lightly as in the days of his simplicity. [ John Ruskin ]

The future of girls depends altogether upon the knowledge, courage, and prudence of good mothers. [ Dr. Porter ]

Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy in religion - a form of knowledge without the power of it. [ Addison ]

All her excellences stand in her so silently as if they had stolen upon her without her knowledge. [ Sir T. Overbury ]

The truly great rest in the knowledge of their own deserts, nor seek the conformation of the world. [ Alexander Smith ]

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking makes what we read ours. [ John Locke ]

Eloquence is the child of knowledge. When the mind is full, like a wholesome river, it is also clear. [ Benjamin Disraeli ]

Gravity is a taught trick to gain credit of the world for more sense and knowledge than a man is worth. [ Sterne ]

Love is ever the beginning of knowledge, as fire is of light; and works also more in the manner of fire. [ Carlyle ]

Knowledge, in truth, is the great sun in the firmament. Life and power are scattered with all its beams. [ Daniel Webster ]

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it. [ Johnson ]

Thou learnest no secret until thou knowest friendship, since to the unsound no heavenly knowledge enters. [ Hafiz ]

The best part of our knowledge is that which teaches us where knowledge leaves off, and ignorance begins. [ Oliver Wendell Holmes ]

Those only who know little, can be said to know anything. The greater the knowledge the greater the doubt. [ Goethe ]

Fools with bookish knowledge are children with edged weapons; they hurt themselves, and put others in pain. [ Zimmermann ]

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. [ Johnson ]

In this advanced century, a girl of sixteen knows as much as her mother, and enjoys her knowledge much more.

Exclusive of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms. [ Samuel Taylor Coleridge ]

There was never a nation great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help. [ Charles Dudley Warner ]

Imparting knowledge, is only lighting other men's candle at our lamp, without depriving ourselves of any flame. [ Jane Porter ]

Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge; and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance. [ William Ellery Channing ]

Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment. [ Bishop Hall ]

Seek knowledge, as if thou wert to be here for ever; virtue, as if death already held thee by the bristling hair. [ Herder ]

What can give us more sure knowledge than our senses? How else can we distinguish between the true and the false? [ Lucretius ]

Knowledge is not happiness, and science but an exchange of ignorance for that which is another kind of ignorance. [ Byron ]

It is the mission of the printer to diffuse light and knowledge by a judicious intermingling of black with white. [ Frederick Douglass ]

A cheerful temper, joined with innocence, will make beauty attractive, knowledge delightful, and wit good-natured. [ Joseph Addison ]

Poetry is the blossom and the fragrance of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language. [ Coleridge ]

General observations drawn from particulars are the jewels of knowledge, comprehending great store in a little room. [ Locke ]

Knowledge, wit, and courage alone excite our admiration; and thou, sweet and modest Virtue, remainest without honors. [ J. J. Rousseau ]

The heavens and the earth, the woods and the wayside, teem with instruction and knowledge to the curious and thoughtful. [ Hosea Ballou ]

Nothing reveals character more than self-sacrifice. So the highest knowledge we have of God is through the gift of His Son. [ William Harris ]

There can be no excess to love, none to knowledge, none to beauty, when these attributes are considered in the purest sense. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

The images of men's wits and knowledge remain in books, exempted from the worry of time and capable of perpetual renovation. [ Bacon ]

Travel gives a character of experience to our knowledge, and brings the figures upon the tablet of memory into strong relief. [ Tuckerman ]

Let no knowledge satisfy but that which lifts above the world, which weans from the world, which makes the world a footstool. [ Spurgeon ]

A mind full of knowledge is a mind that never fails. Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds. [ Emerson ]

Since a true knowledge of nature gives us pleasure, a lively imitation of it in poetry or painting must produce a much greater. [ Dryden ]

Knowledge is not a shop for profit or sale, but a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator, and the relief of men's estate. [ Bacon ]

There is a wide difference between the knowledge of men and the knowledge of man. To know man, it suffices to study one's self. [ Duclos ]

Skill to do comes of doing; knowledge comes by eyes always open, and working hands; and there is no knowledge that is not power. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is the countenance of all science. [ Wordsworth ]

We can take up no scheme, however wild and impracticable, but it will strike off some flower or fruit from the tree of knowledge. [ Ward Beecher ]

When general observations are drawn from so many particulars as to become certain and indisputable, these are jewels of knowledge. [ Dr. Watts ]

Although it is dangerous to have too much knowledge of certain subjects, it is still more dangerous to be totally ignorant of them. [ Colombat ]

He that studies only men will get the body of knowledge without the soul; and he that studies only books, the soul without the body. [ Colton ]

It is dangerous to discover the faults or weaknesses of certain persons: they never forgive us the knowledge of these secret ulcers. [ De Finod ]

One of the greatest pleasures of life is conversation, and the pleasures of conversation are enhanced by every increase of knowledge. [ Sydney Smith ]

If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. [ Benjamin Franklin ]

Not in the knowledge of things without, but in the perfection of the soul within, lies the empire of man aspiring to be more than man. [ Bulwer-Lytton ]

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it: this is knowledge. [ Confucius ]

In strictness of language there is a difference between knowledge and wisdom; wisdom always supposing action and action directed by it. [ Paley ]

Real knowledge never promoted either turbulence or unbelief; but its progress is the forerunner of liberality and enlightened toleration. [ Lord Brougham ]

To be a poet is to have a soul in which knowledge passes instantaneously into feeling, and feeling flashes back as a new organ of knowledge. [ George Eliot ]

High air-castles are cunningly built of words, the words well-bedded in good logic mortar; wherein, however, no knowledge will come to lodge. [ Carlyle ]

Knowledge is the treasure of the mind, but discretion is the key to it, without which it is useless. The practical part of wisdom is the best. [ Owen Feltham ]

It is manifest that all government of action is to be gotten by knowledge, and knowledge best, by gathering many knowledges, which is reading. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

Words indeed are but the signs and counters of knowledge, and their currency should be strictly regulated by the capital which they represent. [ Colton ]

They who, without any previous knowledge of us, think amiss of us, do us no harm: they attack not us, but the phantom of their own imagination. [ La Bruyere ]

When you have got so much true knowledge as is worth fighting for, you are bound to fight or to die for it, but not to debate about it any more. [ John Ruskin ]

Relations are simply a tedious pack of people who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest instinct about when to die. [ Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest ]

He that cometh to seek after knowledge with a mind to scorn and censure, shall be sure to find matter for his humour, but none for his instruction. [ Bacon ]

An irreverent knowledge is no knowledge; it may be a development of the logical or other handicraft faculty, but is no culture of the soul of a man. [ Carlyle ]

Science is the knowledge of constant things, not merely of passing events, and is properly less the knowledge of general laws than of existing facts. [ John Ruskin ]

The best ground, untilled, soonest runs out into rank weeds; a man of knowledge that is either negligent or uncorrected cannot but grow wild and godless. [ Bishop Hall ]

Many people think of knowledge as of money. They would like knowledge, but cannot face the perseverance and self-denial that go to the acquisition of it. [ John Morley ]

Diligence is a steady, constant, and pertinacious study, that naturally leads the soul into the knowledge of that which at first seemed locked up from it. [ R. South ]

The term intellect includes all those powers by which we acquire, retain, and extend our knowledge; as perception, memory, imagination, judgment, and the like. [ William Fleming ]

Our souls, piercing through the impurity of flesh, behold the highest heaven, and thence bring knowledge to contemplate the ever-during glory and termless joy. [ Sir Walter Raleigh ]

Simple as it seems, it was a great discovery that the key of knowledge could turn both ways, that it could open, as well as lock, the door of power to the many. [ Lowell ]

Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms; and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism. [ Coleridge ]

Mothers are more fond of their children than fathers are; for the bringing them forth is more painful, and they have a more certain knowledge that they are their own. [ Aristotle ]

Aphorisms, representing a knowledge broken, do invite men to inquire further; whereas methods carrying the show of a total do secure men, as if they were at furthest. [ Bacon ]

Science always goes abreast with the just elevation of the man, keeping step with religion and metaphysics; or, the state of science is an index of our self-knowledge. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Knowledge partakes of infinity; it widens with our capacities: the higher we mount in it, the vaster and more magnificent are the prospects it stretches out before us. [ J. C. and A. W. Hare ]

Fortitude is not the appetite of formidable things, nor inconsult rashness, but virtue fighting for a truth, derived from knowledge of distinguishing good or bad causes. [ Nabb ]

It is only through the morning gate of the beautiful that you can penetrate into the realm of knowledge. That which we feel here as beauty we shall one day know as truth. [ Schiller ]

Not to know what happened before we were born is always to remain a child; to know, and blindly to adopt that knowledge as an implicit rule of life, is never to be a man. [ Chatfield ]

Knowledge being to be had only of visible and certain truth, error is not a fault of our knowledge, but a mistake of our judgment, giving assent to that which is not true. [ John Locke ]

Through zeal knowledge is gotten, through lack of zeal knowledge is lost; let a man who knows this double path of gain and loss thus place himself that knowledge may grow. [ Buddha ]

Genius, that power which constitutes a poet; that quality without which judgment is cold and knowledge is inert: that energy which collects, combines, amplifies and animates. [ Johnson ]

Literature is a mere step to knowledge; and the error often lies in our identifying one with the other. Literature may, perhaps, make us vain; true knowledge must make us humble. [ Mrs. John Sanford ]

Real knowledge, like every thing else of the highest value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for, studied for, thought for, and, more than all, it must be prayed for. [ Thomas Arnold ]

Plutarch would rather we should applaud his judgment than commend his knowledge, and would rather leave us with an appetite to read more than glutted with that we have already read. [ Montaigne ]

History can be formed from permanent monuments and records; but lives can only be written from personal knowledge, which is growing every day less, and in a short time is lost forever. [ Dr. Johnson ]

Each department of knowledge passes in succession through three different theoretic stages: the theologic stage, or fictitious; the metaphysical, or abstract; the scientific, or positive. [ A. Comte ]

The human intellect is the great truth-organ; realities, as they exist, are the subjects of its study; and knowledge is the result of its acquaintance with the things which it investigates. [ Moses Harvey ]

We want more loving knowledge to enable us to enjoy life, and we require to cultivate the art of making the most of the common means and appliances of enjoyment which lie about us on every side. [ Samuel Smiles ]

He that had never seen a river imagined the first he met with to be the sea; and the greatest things that have fallen within our knowledge we conclude the extremes that nature makes of the kind. [ Montaigne ]

Good-nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it, and certainly to everybody who dwells with them, in so far as mere happiness is concerned. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]

All reasoning is retrospect; it consists in the application of facts and principles previously known. This will show the very great importance of knowledge, especially of that kind called experience. [ J. Foster ]

The object of science is knowledge; the objects of art are works. In art, truth is the means to an end; in science, it is the only end. Hence the practical arts are not to be classed among the sciences. [ Whewell ]

The blindness of men is the most dangerous effect of their pride; it seems to nourish and augment it: it deprives them of knowledge of remedies which can solace their miseries and can cure their faults. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

He who calls in the aid of an equal understanding doubles his own; and he who profits by a superior understanding raises his powers to a level with the height of the superior understanding he unites with. [ Burke ]

It is quite as easy to give our children musical and pleasing names as those that are harsh and difficult; and it will be found by the owners, when they have grown to knowledge, that there is much in a name. [ Locke ]

Sir Anthony Absolute, two or three years before Evelina appeared, spoke the sense of the great body of sober fathers and husbands when he pronounced the circulating library an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge. [ Macaulay ]

The amplest knowledge has the largest faith. Ignorance is always incredulous. Tell an English cottager that the belfries of Swedish churches are crimson, and his own white steeple furnishes him with a contradiction. [ Willmott ]

To know by rote is no knowledge: it is only a retention of what is intrusted to the memory. That which a man truly knows may be disposed of without regard to the author, or reference to the book from whence he had it. [ Montaigne ]

The art of navigation is one of the greatest achievements of human genius; man with its aid obtains a knowledge of the globe he inhabits, opens communications with, and extends his field of operations to all its parts. [ A. Brisbane ]

For imitation is natural to man from his infancy. Man differs from other animals particularly in this, that he is imitative, and acquires his rudiments of knowledge in this way; besides, the delight in it is universal. [ Aristotle ]

What, after all, is heaven, but a transition from dim guesses and blind struggling with a mysterious and adverse fate to the fullness of all wisdom - from ignorance, in a word, to knowledge, but knowledge of what order? [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

I seek in the reading of my books only to please myself by an irreproachable diversion; or if I study it is for no other science than that which treats of the knowledge of myself, and instructs me how to die and live well. [ Montaigne ]

It may be said, almost without qualification, that true wisdom consists in the ready and accurate perception of analogies. Without the former quality, knowledge of the past is uninstructive; without the latter it is deceptive. [ Whately ]

If a young lady has that discretion and modesty without which all knowledge is little worth, she will never make an ostentatious parade of it, because she will rather be intent on acquiring more than on displaying what she has. [ Hannah More ]

For knowledge to become wisdom, and for the soul to grow, the soul must be rooted in God: and it is through prayer that there comes to us that which is the strength of our strength, and the virtue of our virtue, the Holy Spirit. [ William Mountford ]

Besides the pleasure derived from acquired knowledge, there lurks in the mind of man, and tinged with a shade of sadness, an unsatisfactory longing for something beyond the present, a striving towards regions yet unknown and unopened. [ Wilhelm von Humboldt ]

Any man shall speak the better when he knows what others have said, and sometimes the consciousness of his inward knowledge gives a confidence to his outward behavior, which of all other is the best thing to grace a man in his carriage. [ Feltham ]

There are many arts among men, the knowledge of which is acquired bit by bit by experience. For it is experience that causes our life to move forward by the skill we acquire, while want of experience subjects us to the effects of chance. [ Plato ]

Love can take what shape he pleases; and when once begun his fiery inroad in the soul, how vain the after knowledge which his presence gives! We weep or rave; but still he lives, and lives master and lord, amidst pride and tears and pain. [ Barry Cornwall ]

The curse and peril of language in our day, and particularly in this country, is that it is at the mercy of men who, instead of being content to use it well according to their honest ignorance, use it ill according to their affected knowledge. [ Richard Grant White ]

Talent and worth are the only eternal grounds of distinction. To these the Almighty has affixed His everlasting patent of nobility. Knowledge and goodness, - these make degrees in heaven, and they must be the graduating scale of a true democracy. [ Miss Sedgwick ]

Only well-written works will descend to posterity. Fulness of knowledge, interesting facts, even useful inventions, are no pledge of immortality, for they may be employed by more skilful hands; they are outside the man; the style is the man himself. [ Buffon ]

The reasonable worship of a just God who punishes and rewards, would undoubtedly contribute to the happiness of men; but when that salutary knowledge of a just God is disfigured by absurd lies and dangerous superstitions, then the remedy turns to poison. [ Voltaire ]

The true greatness and the true happiness of a country consist in wisdom; in that enlarged and comprehensive wisdom which includes education, knowledge, religion, virtue, freedom, with every influence which advances and every institution which supports them. [ Henry Giles ]

Natural knowledge is come at by the continuance and progress of learning and of liberty, and by particular persons attending to, comparing, and pursuing intimations scattered up and down it, which are overlooked and disregarded by the generality of the world. [ Bishop Butler ]

How little of our knowledge of mankind is derived from intentional accurate observation! Most of it has, unsought, found its way into the mind from the continual presentations of the objects to our unthinking view. It is a knowledge of sensation more than of reflection. [ John Foster ]

Reading without purpose is sauntering, not exercise. More is got from one book on which the thought settles for a definite end in knowledge, than from libraries skimmed over by a wandering eye. A cottage flower gives honey to the bee, a king's garden none to the butterfly. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

Perhaps that is nearly the perfection of good writing which is original, but whose truth alone prevents the reader from suspecting that it is so; and which effects that for knowledge which the lens effects for the sunbeam, when it condenses its brightness in order to increase its force. [ Colton ]

There are two distinct sorts of what we call bashfulness; this, the awkwardness of a booby, which a few steps into the world will convert into the pertness of a coxcomb; that, a consciousness, which the most delicate feelings produce, and the most extensive knowledge cannot always remove. [ Mackenzie ]

So long as thou art ignorant, be not ashamed to learn : he that is so fondly modest, not to acknowledge his own defects of knowledge, shall in time, be so foully impudent to justify his own ignorance; ignorance is the greatest of all infirmities, and, justified, the chiefest of all follies. [ Quarks ]

Ridicule intrinsically is a small faculty; we may say, the smallest of all faculties that other men are at the pains to repay with any esteem. It is directly opposed to thought, to knowledge, properly so called; its nourishment and essence is denial, which hovers on the surface, while knowledge dwells far below. [ Carlyle ]

Experience: in that all our knowledge is founded; and from that it ultimately derives itself. Our observation employed either about external or sensible objects or about the internal operations of our minds, perceived and reflected on by ourselves, is that which supplies our understandings with all the materials of thinking. [ John Locke ]

The works of nature and the works of revelation display religion to mankind in characters so large and visible that those who are not quite blind may in them see and read the first principles and most necessary parts of it, and from thence penetrate into those infinite depths filled with the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. [ Locke ]

Knowledge of books is like that sort of lantern which hides him who carries it, and serves only to pass through secret and gloomy paths of his own; but in the possession of a man of business, it is as a torch in the hand of one who is willing and able to show those who are bewildered, the way which leads to their prosperity and welfare. [ Steele ]

This, therefore, is a law not found in books, but written on the fleshly tablets of the heart, which we have not learned from man, received or read, but which we have caught up from Nature herself, sucked in and imbibed; the knowledge of which we were not taught, but for which we were made; we received it not by education, but by intuition. [ Cicero ]

It is the close observation of little things which is the secret of success in business, in art. in science, and in every pursuit in life. Human knowledge is but an accumulation of small facts made by successive generations of men - the little bits of knowledge and experience carefully treasured up by them growing at length into a mighty pyramid. [ Samuel Smiles ]

They that have read about everything are thought to understand everything too; but it is not always so. Reading furnishes the mind only with the materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. We are of the ruminating kind, and it is not enough to cram ourselves with a great load of collections, - we must I chew them over again. [ Channing ]

The very essence of gravity was design, and, consequently, deceit; it was a taught trick to gain credit of the world for more sense and knowledge than a man was worth; and that with all its pretensions it was no better, but often worse, than what a French wit had long ago defined it - a mysterious carriage of the body to cover the defects of the mind. [ Sterne ]

I have mentioned mathematics as a way to settle in the mind a habit of reasoning closely, and in train; not that I think it necessary that all men should be deep mathematicians, but that having got the way of reasoning, which that study necessarily brings the mind to, they might be able to transfer it to other parts of knowledge, as they have occasion. [ J. Locke ]

By conversing with the mighty dead, we imbibe sentiment with knowledge. We become strongly attached to those who can no longer either hurt or serve us, except through the influence which they exert over the mind. We feel the presence of that power which gives immortality to human thoughts and actions, and catch the flame of enthusiasm from all nations and ages. [ Hazlitt ]

The refining influence is the study of art, which is the science of beauty; and I find that every man values every scrap of knowledge in art, every observation of his own in it, every hint he has caught from another. For the laws of beauty are the beauty of beauty, and give the mind the same or a higher joy than the sight of it gives the senses. The study of art is of high value to the growth of the intellect. [ Emerson ]

Mr. Johnson had never, by his own account, been a close student, and used to advise young people never to be without a book in their pocket, to be read at bye-times, when they had nothing else to do. It has been by that means, said he to a boy at our house one day, that all my knowledge has been gained, except what I have picked up by running about the world with my wits ready to observe, and my tongue ready to talk. [ Mrs. Piozzi ]

The whole difference between a man of genius and other men, it has been said a thousand times, and most truly, is that the first remains in great part a child, seeing with the large eyes of children, in perpetual wonder, not conscious of much knowledge - conscious, rather, of infinite ignorance, and yet infinite power; a fountain of eternal admiration, delight, and creative force within him meeting the ocean of visible and governable things around him. [ Ruskin ]

Rare almost as great poets, rarer, perhaps, than veritable saints and martyrs, are consummate men of business. A man, to be excellent in this way, requires a great knowledge of character, with that exquisite tact which feels unerringly the right moment when to act. A discreet rapidity must pervade all the movements of his thought and action. He must be singularly free from vanity, and is generally found to be an enthusiast who has the art to conceal his enthusiasm. [ Helps ]

Out of the ashes of misanthropy benevolence rises again; we find many virtues where we had imagined all was vice, many acts of disinterested friendship where we had fancied all was calculation and fraud - and so gradually from the two extremes we pass to the proper medium; and, feeling that no human being is wholly good or wholly base, we learn that true knowledge of mankind which induces us to expect little and forgive much. The world cures alike the optimist and the misanthrope. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

Let us now suppose that in the mind of each man there is an aviary of all sorts of birds some flocking together apart from the rest, others in small groups, others solitary, flying anywhere and everywhere. . . . We may suppose that the birds are kinds of knowledge, and that when we were children, this receptacle was empty; whenever a man has gotten and detained in the enclosure a kind of knowledge, he may be said to have learned or discovered the thing which is the subject of the knowledge: and this is to know. [ Dialogues, Theaetetus ]

Poetry is the first and last of all knowledge: it is immortal as the heart of men. If the labors of the men of science should ever create any revolution, direct or indirect, in our condition, and in the impressions which we habitually receive, the poet will then sleep no more than at present; he will be ready to follow the steps of the man of science, not only in those general indirect effects, but he will be at his side, carrying sensation into the midst of the objects of the science itself. The remotest discoveries of the chemist, the botanist, or mineralogist will be as proper objects of the poet's art as any upon which it can be employed, if the time should ever come when these things shall be familiar to us, and the relations under which they are contemplated by the followers of the respective sciences shall be manifestly and palpably material to us as enjoying and suffering beings. If the time should ever come when what is now called science, thus familiarized to men, shall be ready to put on. as it were, a form of flesh and blood, the poet will lend his divine spirit to aid the transfiguration, and will welcome the being thus produced as a dear and genuine inmate of the household of man. [ Wordsworth ]