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What is all Knowledge too but recorded Experience, and a product of History; of which, therefore, Reasoning and Belief, no less than Action and Passion, are essential materials?
Thomas Carlyle1795–1881Carlyle, Essays, On History. Quote reported in Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 419-23.
- Experience
- Knowledge
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
The acquisition of any knowledge is always of use to the intellect, because it may thus drive out useless things and retain the good. For nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known.
Leonardo da Vinci1452–1519XIX Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and Speculations.
- Knowledge
All the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavour to find out what you don’t know by what you do; that’s what I called “guessing what was at the other side of the hill.”
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington1769–1852Remark to John Wilson Croker (4 September 1852), in L. J. Jennings (ed.), The Croker Papers
- Knowledge
- War & Peace
Freedom does not consist in any dreamt-of independence from natural laws, but in the knowledge of these laws, and in the possibility this gives of systematically making them work towards definite ends.
Friedrich Engels1820–1895Anti-Dühring, pt. 1, ch. 11 (1877)
- Freedom
- Knowledge
We should teach our children nothing which they shall ever need to unlearn; we should strive to transmit to them the best possessions, the truest thought, the noblest sentiments of the age in which we live.
Felix Adler1851–1933Life and Destiny (1913), Section 9: Ethical Outlook
- Children
It is true that every increase of knowledge may possibly render depravity more depraved, as well as it may increase the strength of virtue. It is in itself only power; and its value depends on its application.
Sydney Smith1771–1845“Female Education” (review of Thomas Broadhurst, Advice to Young Ladies on the Improvement of Mind, 1808), in The Edinburgh Review, No. 30 (January 1810), p. 314
- Knowledge
- Power
The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it, into which a young gentleman should be enter’d by degrees, as he can bear it; and the earlier the better, so he be in safe and skillful hands to guide him.
John Locke1632–1704Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693), Sec. 94
- Knowledge
You have to study a great deal to know a little.
Montesquieu1689–1755Pensées et Fragments Inédits de Montesquieu (1899)
- Knowledge
To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
Anatole France1844–1924The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard (1881), Pt. II, ch. 2
- Knowledge
A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one.
Molière1622–1673Les Femmes Savantes (1672), Act IV, sc. iii
- Intelligence
The difficulty in philosophy is to say no more than we know.
Ludwig Wittgenstein1889–1951The Blue Book (c. 1931–1935; published 1965), p. 45
- Knowledge
- Philosophy
The bulk of the world’s knowledge is an imaginary construction.
Helen Keller1880–1968The World I Live In (1908), ch. 8: The Five-Sensed World
- 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
I’d take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.
Douglas Adams1952–2001The Salmon of Doubt (2002)
- Knowledge