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Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.
Thomas Fuller1608–1661The Holy State and the Profane State (1642), Of Books
- Reading
In all existential knowledge both subject and object are transformed by the very act of knowing.
Paul Tillich1886–1965The Courage to Be (1952), p. 124
- Knowledge
Now, if the ignorance of nature gave birth to Gods, the knowledge of nature is calculated to destroy them.
Baron d'Holbach1723–1789Le Système de la nature (The System of Nature, 1770)
- Anti-God
- Knowledge
When hurt feelings and bruised egos are more important than the unfettered life of the mind, the universities have committed suicide.
Camille Pagliaborn 1947Vamps and Tramps (1994), “No Law in the Arena: A Pagan Theory of Sexuality”, p. 51
We do not want dictators, we do not want oligarchic parties or class rule, we want a widespread world intelligence conscious of itself.
H. G. Wells1866–1946World Brain (1938), Preface, p. xvi
- Government
- Knowledge
Ten years now go further than a thousand then, not so much on account of our finer intellects as because the light we have shows us the way to more.
Arthur Conan Doyle1859–1930The Stark Munro Letters (1894)
- Knowledge
Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, — the balance-wheel of the social machinery.
Horace Mann1796–185912th Annual Report to the Massachusetts State Board of Education (1848); published in Life and Works of Horace Mann Vol. III, (1868) edited by Mary Mann, p. 669
Teaching and research are not to be confused with training for a profession. Their greatness and their misfortune is that they are a refuge or a mission.
Claude Lévi-Strauss1908–2009Tristes Tropiques (1955), Chapter 6: The Making of an Anthropologist, p. 55
It turns out that teaching is one of those things like raising a kid or working out⁠—sometimes amazing, often difficult and painful, but, in hindsight, amazing.
Cory Doctorowborn 1971The Man Who Sold The Moon (2014), p. 129
A self which has become a matter of calculation and management has ceased to be a self. It has become a thing. You must participate in a self in order to know what it is.
Paul Tillich1886–1965The Courage to Be (1952), p. 124
- Knowledge
There are two answers to the things they will teach you about our land: the real answer and the answer you give in school to pass. You must read books and learn both answers.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichieborn 1977Half of a Yellow Sun (2006), Part 1, Ch. 1
- Reading
The more we learn about the world, and the deeper our learning, the more conscious, specific, and articulate will be our knowledge of what we do not know, our knowledge of our ignorance.
Karl Popper1902–1994Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge (1963)
- Knowledge
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
For knowledge itself is power.
Francis Bacon1561–1626Meditationes Sacræ [Sacred Meditations] (1597), “De Hæresibus” [Of Heresies]
- Knowledge
- Power
Those who trust us educate us.
George Eliot1819–1880Daniel Deronda (1876)