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Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.
Jerome345–420Commentary on Isaiah, Prologue
- Christianity
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
Samuel Johnson1709–1784Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol II (18 April 1775) p. 258
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
Men more frequently require to be reminded than informed.
Samuel Johnson1709–1784The Rambler (1750–1752), No. 2 (24 March 1750)
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
- Power
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
Let Observation with extensive View,
Survey Mankind, from China to Peru
Samuel Johnson1709–1784The Vanity of Human Wishes (1749)In context
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
Carl Jung1875–1961
- Failure
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
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
- 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
The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds.
John F. Kennedy1917–1963To the Moon (1962)
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
And cooperation in the pursuit of knowledge can hopefully lead to cooperation in the pursuit of peace.
John F. Kennedy1917–1963Address at the University of California at Berkeley
- War & Peace
What I really need is to get clear about what I must do, not what I must know, except insofar as knowledge must precede every act.
Søren Kierkegaard1813–1855Journal entry, Gilleleie (1 August 1835) Journals 1A