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There is the love of knowing without the love of learning; the beclouding here leads to dissipation of mind.
Confucius551–479 BCAnalects, Chapter XVII, Book XVII, Chapter VIII.
- Education
We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that the savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.
Mark Twain1835–1910A Tramp Abroad (1880)
An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.
James A. Michener1907–1997Space (1982)
- History
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
Lack of knowledge concerning all the factors and the failure to include them in our integral imposes false conclusions.
Buckminster Fuller1895–1983The Wellspring of Reality
I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White House, with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.
John F. Kennedy1917–1963Address at a White House dinner honoring Nobel Prize winners (29 April 1962), quoted in The White House Diary, at the JFK Library
- Genius
Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.
Ludwig Wittgenstein1889–1951On Certainty (1969), 378
That there should one Man die ignorant who had capacity for Knowledge, this I call a tragedy.
Thomas Carlyle1795–1881Sartor Resartus (1833–1834), Bk. III, ch. 4.
- Education
Love is ever the beginning of Knowledge as fire is of light.
Thomas Carlyle1795–1881Critical and Miscellaneous Essays (1827–1855)
- Love
Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.
Marcus Aurelius121–180III, 11
- Thinking
Eternal vigilance is the price of knowledge.
George Santayana1863–1952The Genteel Tradition in American Philosophy (1911), p. 58
Knowledge by suffering entereth,
And life is perfected by death.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning1806–1861Poems (1844)
- Life & Death
A very great deal more truth can become known than can be proven.
Richard Feynman1918–1988“The Development of the Space-Time View of Quantum Electrodynamics,” Nobel Lecture (11 December 1965)
- Truth & Lies
Virtue is harder to be got than knowledge of the world; and, if lost in a young man, is seldom recovered.
John Locke1632–1704Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693), Sec. 70
- Virtue
Ideas are everywhere, but knowledge is rare.
Thomas Sowellborn 1930Knowledge and Decisions (1980; 1996), Ch. 1 : The Role of Knowledge
- Ideas