Bacon Francis 1561-1626

The Advancement of Learning

For all knowledge and wonder (which is the seed of knowledge) is an impression of pleasure in itself.

Bacon Francis 1561-1626

The Advancement of Learning

The knowledge of man is as the waters, some descending from above, and some springing from beneath; the one informed by the light of nature, the other inspired by divine revelation.

Bacon Francis 1561-1626

Knowledge is power.

Bacon Francis 1561-1626

‘To My Lord Treasurer Burghley'

I have taken all knowledge to be my province.

Bacon Francis 1561-1626

Meditationes Sacrae ‘Of Heresies'

For also knowledge itself is power.

The Bible

New Testament: I Corinthians ch.13 v.1

Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth.

The Bible

Old Testament: Ecclesiastes ch.1 v.18

In much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.

Bright John 1811-1889

The knowledge of the ancient languages is mainly a luxury.

Browne Sir Thomas 1605-1682

The Garden of Cyrus

The quincunx of heaven runs low, and ‘tis time to close the five ports of knowledge.

Clough Arthur Hugh 1819-1861

The Bothie of Tober-na-Vuolich

Grace is given of God, but knowledge is bought in the market.

Colton Charles Caleb c.1780-1832

We owe almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed, but to those who have differed.

Cowper William 1731-1800

The Task

Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much;
Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.

Davies W.H. 1871-1940

Sweet Stay-at-Home

I love thee for a heart that's kind -
Not for the knowledge in thy mind.

Durant Will 1885-1981

Our knowledge is a receding mirage in an expanding desert of ignorance.

Eliot T.S. 1888-1965

The Rock

Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

Fisher Martin H.

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

Freud Sigmund 1856-1939

The Interpretation of Dreams

The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.

Fuller Thomas 1608-1661

The great end of life is not knowledge, but action.

Galbraith J.K.

Technology means the systematic application of scientific or other organized knowledge to practical tasks.

Gibran Kahlil 1883-1931

No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

Gracian Baltasar 1601-1658

Even knowledge has to be in fashion and where it is not it is wise to affect ignorance.

Hazlitt William 1778-1830

Learning is the knowledge of that which none but the learned know.

Henry Will

What is research, but a blind date with knowledge?

Hitler Adolf 1889-1945

Belief is harder to shake than knowledge.

Holmes Oliver Wendell 1809-1894

It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

Huxley Thomas 1825-1895

Collected Essays

If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?

Huxley Thomas 1825-1895

Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.

Huxley Thomas 1825-1895

The great end of life is not knowledge, but action.

Johnson Samuel 1709-1784

Knowledge is of two kinds; we know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

Johnson Samuel 1709-1784

A man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.

Johnson Samuel 1709-1784

Man is not weak - knowledge is more than equivalent to force. The master of mechanics laughs at strength.

Keats John 1795-1821

‘Hyperion: A Fragment'

Knowledge enormous makes a god of me.

Keats John 1795-1821

‘Isabella; or, The Pot of Basil'

And she forgot the stars, the moon, and sun,
And she forgot the blue above the trees,
And she forgot the dells where waters run,
And she forgot the chilly autumn breeze;
She had no knowledge when the day was done,
And the new morn she saw not; but in peace
Hung over her sweet Basil evermore,
And moistened it with tears unto the core.

Keynes John Neville 1852-1949

The Scope and Method of Political Economy

A positive science may be defined as a body of systematized knowledge concerning what is; a normative or regular science a body of systematized knowledge relating to criteria of what ought to be, and concerned therefore with the ideal as distinguished from the actual.

Leibniz Gottfried Wilhelm 1646-1716

Letter on a General Principle ... Laws of Nature

It is God who is the ultimate reason of things, and the knowledge of God is no less the beginning of science than his essence and will
are the beginning of beings.

Leibniz Gottfried Wilhelm 1646-1716

The Monadology

It is the knowledge of necessary and eternal truths which distinguishes us from mere animals, and gives us Reason and the sciences, raising us to knowledge of ourselves and of God. It is this in us which we call the rational soul or Mind.

Locke John 1632-1704

An Essay concerning Human Understanding

The commonwealth of learning is not at this time without master-builders, whose mighty designs, in advancing the sciences, will leave lasting monuments to the admiration of posterity ... ‘tis ambition enough to be employed as an under-labourer in clearing ground a little, and removing some of the rubbish that lies in the way of knowledge.

Locke John 1632-1704

An Essay concerning Human

Understanding
No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.

Lowell A.L. 1856-1943

(while President of Harvard)

The freshmen bring a little knowledge in and the seniors take none out, so it accumulates through the years.

Lynd Robert 1879-1949

One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.

Macaulay Baron (Thomas Babington) 1800-1859

Knowledge advances by steps, and not by leaps.

Miller Henry 1891-1980

The study of crime begins with the knowledge of oneself.

Milton John 1608-1674

Areopagitica

It was from out the rind of one apple tasted that the knowledge of good and evil as two twins cleaving together leaped forth into the world. And perhaps this is that doom that Adam fell into of knowing good and evil, that is to say, of knowing good by evil.

Milton John 1608-1674

Areopagitica

Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions; for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.

Milton John 1608-1674

Paradise Lost

God is thy law, thou mine: to know no more
Is woman's happiest knowledge and her praise.
With thee conversing I forget all time.

Oppenheimer J. Robert 1904-1967

Open Mind

In some sort of crude sense which no vulgarity, no humour, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.

Osborne John

Look Back in Anger

His knowledge of life and ordinary human beings is so hazy, he really deserves some sort of decoration for it - a medal inscribed ‘For Vaguery in the Field.'

Pope Alexander 1688-1744

An Essay on Man

All our knowledge is, ourselves to know.

Proverbs and Sayings

Arab

God sells knowledge for labour - honour for risk.

Proverbs and Sayings

Medieval

The touchstone of knowledge is the ability to teach.

Queneau Raymond 1903-1976

Learning to learn is to know how to navigate in a forest of facts, ideas and theories, a proliferation of constantly changing items of knowledge. Learning to learn is to know what to ignore but at the same time not rejecting innovation and research.

Roosevelt Franklin D. 1882-1945

If I were starting life over again, I am inclined to think that I would go into the advertising business in preference to almost any other. The general raising of standards of modern civilization among all groups of people during the past half-century would have been impossible without that spreading of the knowledge of higher standards by means of advertising.

Russell Bertrand 1872-1970

Autobiography

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge and unbearable pity
for the suffering of mankind.

Russell Bertrand 1872-1970

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Russell Bertrand 1872-1970

What men want is not knowledge, but certainty.

Santayana George 1863-1952

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Schweitzer Albert 1875-1965

As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious.

Shelley Mary 1797-1851

Frankenstein

You seek for knowledge and wisdom as I once did; and I ardently hope that the gratification of your wishes may not be a serpent to sting you, as mine has been.

Stopes Marie 1880-1958

Married Love

An impersonal and scientific knowledge of the structure of our bodies is the surest safeguard against prurient curiosity and lascivious gloating.

Symonds John Addington 1840-1893

These things shall be! A loftier race
Than e'er the world hath known shall rise,
With flame of freedom in their souls,
And light of knowledge in their eyes.

Tennyson Alfred Lord 1809-1892

‘Locksley Hall'