Quotes about Knowledge
Your strength lies in knowledge, your power lies in wisdom, your treasure lies in understanding, and your wealth lies in life.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds.
— Will Rogers
If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.
— Lao Tzu
The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so called scientific knowledge.
— Thomas Edison
Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.
— Thomas Henry Huxley
Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.
— Thomas Henry Huxley
Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth.
— Thomas Henry Huxley
The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box.
— Thomas Henry Huxley
In science, as in art, and, as I believe, in every other sphere of human activity, there may be wisdom in a multitude of counsellors, but it is only in one or two of them.
— Thomas Henry Huxley
A book has but one voice, but it does not instruct everyone alike.
— Thomas a Kempis
Every man naturally desires knowledge; but what good is knowledge without fear of God? Indeed a humble rustic who serves God is better than a proud intellectual who neglects his soul to study the course of the stars.He who knows himself well becomes mean in his own eyes and is not happy when praised by men.
— Thomas a Kempis