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Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
Samuel Johnson1709–1784The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (1759), Ch. XLI
- Character
- Knowledge
Example is always more efficacious than precept.
Samuel Johnson1709–1784The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (1759), Ch. XXX
- Leadership
Men more frequently require to be reminded than informed.
Samuel Johnson1709–1784The Rambler (1750–1752), No. 2 (24 March 1750)
- Knowledge
Knowledge is more than equivalent to force. The master of mechanicks laughs at strength.
Samuel Johnson1709–1784The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (1759), Ch. XIII
- Knowledge
- Power
There is now less flogging in our great schools than formerly, but then less is learned there; so that what the boys get at one end they lose at the other.
Samuel Johnson1709–1784Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol II (1775) p. 273
- Comedy
A desire for knowledge is the natural feeling of mankind; and every human being, whose mind is not debauched, will be willing to give all he has to get knowledge.
Samuel Johnson1709–1784Dr. Johnson’s Table Talk (London: 1807), p. 64
- Knowledge
Let Observation with extensive View,
Survey Mankind, from China to Peru
Samuel Johnson1709–1784The Vanity of Human Wishes (1749)In context
- Knowledge
He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
Joseph Joubert1754–1824The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert, tr. Paul Auster (1983)
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
Carl Jung1875–1961
- Failure
- Knowledge
I can prove at any time that my education tried to make another person out of me than the one I became.
Franz Kafka1883–1924The Diaries of Franz Kafka 1910-1923 (1948) (July 1910)
But though all our knowledge begins with experience, it by no means follows, that all arises out of experience.
Immanuel Kant1724–1804Critique of Pure Reason (1781; 1787), B 1
- Experience
- Knowledge
Then felt I like some watcher of the skies
When a new planet swims into his ken;
Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes
He star’d at the Pacific⁠—and all his men
Look’d at each other with a wild surmise⁠—
Silent, upon a peak in Darien.
John Keats1795–1821On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer (1816)In context
- Knowledge
- Reading
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
The most important day I remember in all my life is the one on which my teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, came to me.
Helen Keller1880–1968The Story of My Life (1903), Ch. 4
Liberty without learning is always in peril; learning without liberty is always in vain.
John F. Kennedy1917–1963Address at Vanderbilt University
- Liberty