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The world’s great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.1809–1894The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (1858), Ch. 6
The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without a teacher.
Elbert Hubbard1856–1915
- Children
The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.
Elbert Hubbard1856–1915
- Knowledge
There are conditions worse than being unable to see, and that is imagining one sees.
L. Ron Hubbard1911–1986Lecture, Scientology and Effective Knowledge (July 15, 1957).
- Knowledge
There is now, in France, in each village, a lighted torch⁠—the schoolmaster⁠—and a mouth which blows upon it⁠—the curé.
Victor Hugo1802–1885Histoire d’un crime. Déposition d’un témoin (1877), Deuxième Journée. La lutte, ch. III: La barricade Saint-Antoine
- Anti-Religion
Learning has been [a] great loser by being shut up in colleges and cells and secluded from the world and good company.
David Hume1711–1776
Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose. It is a seeking that he who wishes may know the cosmic secrets of the world and they that dwell therein.
Zora Neale Hurston1891–1960Dust Tracks on a Road (1942), Ch. 10: Research, p. 143
- Knowledge
- Science
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
Thomas Jefferson1743–1826Letter to Colonel Charles Yancey (6 January 1816) ME 14:384
- Freedom
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
Thomas Jefferson1743–1826Letter to Éleuthère Irénée du Pont de Nemours (24 April 1816)
Bigotry is the disease of ignorance, of morbid minds; enthusiasm of the free and buoyant. Education & free discussion are the antidotes of both.
Thomas Jefferson1743–1826Letter to John Adams (1 August 1816)
He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.
Thomas Jefferson1743–1826Letter to Isaac McPherson (1813)
- Ideas
- Knowledge
Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.
Jerome345–420Commentary on Isaiah, Prologue
- Christianity
- Knowledge
The vices of our teachers are not to be imitated, their virtues are.
Jerome345–420Apology Against Rufinus, Book III, sec. 27
- Virtue
Poverty must not be a bar to learning, and learning must offer an escape from poverty.
Lyndon B. Johnson1908–1973The Great Society (May 22, 1964)
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
Samuel Johnson1709–1784Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol II (18 April 1775) p. 258
- Knowledge