Quotes about Knowledge
A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom. - from Live Without Principle
— Henry David Thoreau
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty.
— Henry Ford
If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.
— Henry Ford
True education is gained through the discipline of life. There
— Henry Ford
The ignorant classes are the dangerous classes.
— Henry Ward Beecher
The most dangerous people are the ignorant.
— Henry Ward Beecher
A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counsellor, a multitude of counsellors.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Ignorance is the womb of monsters
— Henry Ward Beecher
There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books.
— Henry Ward Beecher
A man is a great bundle of tools. He is born into this life without the knowledge of how to use them. Education is the process of learning their use.
— Henry Ward Beecher
A library is but the soul's burial-ground. It is the land of shadows.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Books are not men and yet they stay alive.
— Henry Ward Beecher