Quotes about Knowledge

I no have education. I have inspiration. If I was educated I would be a damn fool.

Mistakes are a fact of life. If you are willing to be wrong then you have earned the right to be right.

Let us be so taken up with the knowledge of God's goodness and the desire to fellowship with Him that our emotions are warmed and our outer man reflects great love. Although we must not seek emotional experiences for their own sake, we must not shun them merely because others misuse them or ignore God's instructions on worship.

You could not open a book in this library that I have not looked into...it is as much as you can expect from a poor man's daughter.

The young man evidently thought it too bad that he should be laughed at for his ignorance, and then laughed at for trying to remove it. 

All true histories contain instruction.

When a youth was giving himself airs in the Theatre and saying, 'I am wise, for I have conversed with many wise men,' Epictetus replied, 'I too have conversed with many rich men, yet I am not rich!'.

He who exercises wisdom, exercises the knowledge which is about God.

Don't just say you have read books. Show that through them you have learned to think better, to be a more discriminating and reflective person. Books are the training weights of the mind. They are very helpful, but it would be a bad mistake to suppose that one has made progress simply by having internalized their contents.

Wisdom's seat is higher; she trains not the hands, but is mistress of our minds.

There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.

I entreat masters to live a good life and faithfully to instruct their scholars, especially that they may love God and learn to give themselves to knowledge, in order to promote His honour, the welfare of the state, and their own salvation, but not for the sake of avarice or the praise of man.