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Right action is better than knowledge; but in order to do what is right, we must know what is right.
CCharlemagne747–814De Litteris Colendis (c. 780–800); translation from T. H. Huxley, Science and Education (1893)
- Morality
And gladly would he learn, and gladly teach.
Geoffrey Chaucer1343–1400The Canterbury Tales (c. 1387–1400), The General PrologueIn context
- Education
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
Winston Churchill1874–1965Speech at Harvard University, September 6, 1943 (full text, audio).
- Ideas
Fighting wars is not so much about killing people as it is about finding things out. The more you know, the more likely you are to win a battle.
Tom Clancy1947–2013Schafer interview (1995)
- War & Peace
That writer does the most, who gives his reader the most knowledge, and takes from him the least time.
CCCharles Caleb Colton1777–1832Preface
- Writing
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
It is characteristic of the unlearned that they are forever proposing something which is old, and because it has recently come to their own attention, supposing it to be new.
Calvin Coolidge1872–1933From ‘Address at Holy Cross’ (25 June 1919), published in Have Faith In Massachusetts: A Collection of Speeches and Messages (2nd Ed.), Coolidge, Houghton Mifflin, p. 231.
- Ideas
Share your knowledge. It’s a way to achieve immortality.
Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lamaborn 1935
Doing what little one can to increase the general stock of knowledge is as respectable an object of life, as one can in any likelihood pursue.
Charles Darwin1809–1882
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.
Charles Darwin1809–1882The Descent of Man (1871) volume I, “Introduction”, p. 3
Our age has robbed millions of the simplicity of ignorance, and has so far failed to lift them to the simplicity of wisdom.
Robertson Davies1913–1995A Voice from the Attic (1960)
- Wisdom
Intellectual darkness is essential to industrial slavery.
Eugene V. Debs1855–1926The Socialist Party and the Working Class (1904)
- Work
The only secure knowledge is that I exist.
René Descartes1596–1650
- Philosophy
Ignorance never settles a question.
Benjamin Disraeli1804–1881Speech in the House of Commons (14 May 1866)
Man is a mystery: if you spend your entire life trying to puzzle it out, then do not say that you have wasted your time. I occupy myself with this mystery, because I want to be a man.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky1821–1881Letter to his brother Mikhail (1839), as translated in Konstantin Mochulsky, Dostoevsky: His Life and Work (1971), p. 17
- Philosophy