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Joy in looking and comprehending is nature’s most beautiful gift.
Albert Einstein1879–1955Essay to Leo Baeck (1953), Ideas and Opinions
- Knowledge
- Nature
I believe, indeed, that overemphasis on the purely intellectual attitude, often directed solely to the practical and factual, in our education, has led directly to the impairment of ethical values.
Albert Einstein1879–1955“The Need for Ethical Culture”, message on the 75th anniversary of the Ethical Culture Society (5 January 1951)
- Morality
Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution.
Albert Einstein1879–1955Cosmic Religion: With Other Opinions and Aphorisms (1931), p. 97
- Ideas
- Knowledge
Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities.
George Eliot1819–1880Daniel Deronda (1876)
- Knowledge
Those who trust us educate us.
George Eliot1819–1880Daniel Deronda (1876)
Where is the Life we have lost in living?
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
T. S. Eliot1888–1965Choruses from The Rock (1934), I
- Knowledge
- Wisdom
After such knowledge, what forgiveness?
T. S. Eliot1888–1965Poems (1920), “Gerontion”
- Forgiveness
- Knowledge
What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow
Out of this stony rubbish? Son of man,
You cannot say, or guess, for you know only
A heap of broken images, where the sun beats,
And the dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no relief,
And the dry stone no sound of water.
T. S. Eliot1888–1965The Waste Land (1922), IIn context
- Knowledge
Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882
- Knowledge
We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882
The secret of education is respecting the pupil.
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882
There is no knowledge that is not power.
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882Society and Solitude (1870), Old Age
- Knowledge
- Power
There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better for worse as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882Self-Reliance (1841)In context
- Envy
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
Do not be guilty of possessing a library of learned books while lacking learning yourself.
Erasmus1466–1536Letter to Christian Northoff (1497), as translated in Collected Works of Erasmus (1974), p. 115
- Reading