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"Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind"
Plato, Philosopher
"And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul"
Plato, Philosopher
"Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get 'em, get 'em right, or they will get you wrong"
Thomas Fuller, Clergyman
"The true method of knowledge is experiment"
William Blake, Poet
"How many things there are concerning which we might well deliberate whether we had better know them"
Henry David Thoreau, Author
"Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve"
Henry David Thoreau, Author
"Could we have entered into the mind of Sir Isaac Newton, and have traced all the steps by which he produced his great works, we might see nothing very extraordinary in the process"
J.B. Priestley, Writer
"After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books"
Albert Camus, Philosopher
"We cannot learn men from books"
Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman
"No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned"
Franklin D. Roosevelt, President
"Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know"
Aldous Huxley, Novelist
"Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting"
Aldous Huxley, Novelist
"Knowledge is power"
Francis Bacon, Philosopher
"By burning Luther's books, you may rid your bookshelves of him, but you will not rid men's minds of him"
Desiderius Erasmus, Philosopher
"The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence"
Elbert Hubbard, Writer
"No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge"
Kahlil Gibran, Poet
"Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds"
Kahlil Gibran, Poet
"Man is multiplied by the number of languages he possesses and speaks"
Jose Rizal, Writer
"I can concede that the government has no knowledge of the people, but I believe the people know less of the government. There are useless officials, evil, if you like, but there are also good ones, and these are not able to accomplish anything because they encounter an inert mass, the population that takes little part in matters that concern them"
Jose Rizal, Writer
"I do not write for this generation. I am writing for other ages. If this could read me, they would burn my books, the work of my whole life. On the other hand, the generation which interprets these writings will be an educated generation; they will understand me and say: Not all were asleep in the nighttime of our grandparents"
Jose Rizal, Writer
"The two offices of memory are collection and distribution"
Samuel Johnson, Author
"Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles"
Samuel Johnson, Author
"Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness"
Jim Rohn, Businessman
"If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability"
Henry Ford, Businessman
"I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible"
Henry Ford, Businessman
"A man of great memory, without learning, hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin"
George Herbert, Poet
"To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance"
John Ruskin, Writer
"Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement"
Peter Drucker, Businessman
"Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes"
Peter Drucker, Businessman
"Men blaspheme what they do not know"
Blaise Pascal, Philosopher
"Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance"
Bertrand Russell, Philosopher
"Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life"
Charles de Gaulle, Leader
"There is no desire more natural than the desire for knowledge"
Michel de Montaigne, Philosopher
"We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void"
Michel de Montaigne, Philosopher
"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 Aurelius, Soldier
"The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance"
Lyndon B. Johnson, President
"My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors"
Maya Angelou, Poet
"The scientist rigorously defends his right to be ignorant of almost everything except his specialty"
Marshall McLuhan, Sociologist
"The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify, we give the name of knowledge"
Ambrose Bierce, Journalist
"Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding"
Ambrose Bierce, Journalist
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