Quotes: Knowledge

Knowledge is the life of the mind.

Perhaps the prevalence of pedantry may be largely accounted for by the common error of thinking that, because useful knowledge should be remembered, any kind of knowledge that is at all worth learning should be remembered too.

Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid.

Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.

With all the knowledge and skill acquired in thousands of flights in the last ten years, I would hardly think today of making my first flight on a strange machine in a twenty-seven mile wind, even if I knew that the machine had already been flown and was safe.

Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.

The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.

Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ.

An excessive knowledge of Marxism is a sign of a misspent youth.

Knowledge is true opinion.