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It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.
Carl Friedrich Gauss1777–1855Letter to Farkas Bolyai (2 September 1808)
- Knowledge
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
Kahlil Gibran1883–1931The Prophet (1923), On PainIn context
- Knowledge
Most often people seek in life occasions for persisting in their opinions rather than for educating themselves.
André Gide1869–1951“An Unprejudiced Mind,” p. 311
Scientific knowledge helps us mainly because it makes the wonder to which we are called by nature rather more intelligible.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe1749–1832Maxims and Reflections (1833), Maxim 417, trans. Stopp
- Knowledge
- Science
There is no outward mark of politeness that does not have a profound moral reason. The right education would be that which taught the outward mark and the moral reason together.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe1749–1832Elective Affinities (1809), Bk. II, Ch. 5, R. J. Hollingdale, trans. (1971), p. 195
- Morality
I’ve studied now Philosophy
And Jurisprudence, Medicine,⁠—
And even, alas! Theology,⁠—
From end to end, with labor keen;
And here, poor fool! with all my lore
I stand, no wiser than before:
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe1749–1832Faust (1808), Scene I, spoken by FaustIn context
- Knowledge
- Wisdom
For just where fails the comprehension,
A word steps promptly in as deputy.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe1749–1832Faust (1808), Scene IV, spoken by MephistophelesIn context
- Knowledge
- Talking
I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
Vincent van Gogh1853–1890Often credited to Pablo Picasso
There are, however, some potentates I would kill by any and all means at my disposal. They are Ignorance, Superstition, and Bigotry — the most sinister and tyrannical rulers on earth.
Emma Goldman1869–1940Answering questions after a speech in Detroit (1898), as recounted in Living My Life (1931), p. 207
- Knowledge
In arguing too, the parson owned his skill,
For e’en tho’ vanquished, he could argue still;
While words of learned length, and thundering sound,
Amazed the gazing rustics ranged around;
And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew,
That one small head could carry all he knew.
Oliver Goldsmith1728–1774The Deserted Village (1770), The Deserted VillageIn context
- Debate
- Knowledge
If you cannot make knowledge your servant, make it your friend.
Baltasar Gracián1601–1658The Art of Worldly Wisdom (1647), Maxim 15 (p. 9)
- Knowledge
The true measure of an education isn’t what grades a student gets today, but where they are 10 years later.
TGTemple Grandinborn 1947“Temple Grandin: Society Is Failing Visual Thinkers, and That Hurts Us All” Guest essay, New York Times (January 9, 2023)
The framers of our Constitution firmly believed that a republican government could not endure without intelligence and education generally diffused among the people.
Ulysses S. Grant1822–1885Message to the Senate and House of Representatives (1870)
- Government
Education is a means of sharpening the mind of man both spiritually and intellectually. It is a two-edged sword that can be used either for the progress of mankind or for its destruction.
Haile Selassie1892–1975University Graduation address (2 July 1963), published in Important Utterances of H. I. M. Emperor Haile Selassie I, 1963-1972 (1972), p. 22
You don’t get anything worth getting by pretending to know things you don’t know.
Sam Harrisborn 1967Sam Harris, Big Think Sam Harris On Death (July 4, 2007)
- Knowledge