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The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty. - James Madison Knowledge has its boundary line, where it abuts on ignorance; on the outside of that boundary line are ignorance and miracles; on the inside of it are science and no miracles. - Horace Mann Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power. - Horace Mann, Lectures and Reports on Education (lecture I) I know all that better than my own name. [Lat., Et teneo melius ista quam meum nomen.] - Martial (Marcus Valerius Martialis), Epigrams (IV, 37, 7) No article of faith is proof against the disintegrating effects of increasing information; one might almost describe the acquirement of knowledge as a process of disillusion. - Henry Louis Mencken Every man with a bellyful of the classics is an enemy to the human race. - Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer Knowledge is Bought only with a weary care, And wisdom means a world of pain. - Joaquin Miller (pseudonym of Cincinnatus Hiner Miller) I went into the temple, there to hear The teachers of our law, and to propose What might improve my knowledge or their own. - John Milton, Paradise Regained (bk. I, l. 211) You speak before a man to whom all Naples is known. [Fr., Vouz parlez devant un homme a qui tout Naples est connu.] - Moliere (pseudonym of Jean Baptiste Poquelin), L'Avare (V, 5) Act as though I knew nothing. [Lat., Faites comme si je ne le savais pas.] - Moliere (pseudonym of Jean Baptiste Poquelin), Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme (II, 6) True knowledge consists in knowing things, not words. - Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Knowledge is an excellent drug; but no drug has virtue enough to preserve itself from corruption and decay, if the vessel be tainted and impure wherein it is put to keep. - Michel Eyquem de Montaigne To know one thing, you must know the opposite. - Henry Moore As knowledge increases, wonder deepens. - Charles Morgan Better know nothing than half-know many things. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Every extension of knowledge arises from making the conscious the unconscious. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche All thing I thought I knew; but now confess The more I know I know, I know the less. - John Owen ("British Martial"), Works (bk. VI, 39) Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all. - Pericles Is then thy knowledge of no value, unless another know that thou possessest that knowledge? [Lat., Scire tuum nihil est, nisi te scire hoc sciat alter?] - Persius (Aulus Persius Flaccus), Satires (I, 27) I know you even under the skin. [Lat., Ego te intus et in cute novi.] - Persius (Aulus Persius Flaccus), Satires (III, 30) Apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there? - Harold Pinter, The Homecoming (act 2, sc. 1) It is well for one to know more than he says. [Lat., Plus scire satius est, quam loqui.] - Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus), Epidicus (I, 1, 60) Half our knowledge we must snatch, not take. - Alexander Pope That virtue only makes our bliss below, And all our knowledge is ourselves to know. - Alexander Pope, Essay on Man (ep. IV, l. 397) In vain sedate reflections we would make When half our knowledge we must snatch, not take. - Alexander Pope, Moral Essays (ep. I, l. 39) Displaying page 7 of 10 for this topic: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 5 6 [7] 8 9 10
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