A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.
Ignorance is the curse of God knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.
If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.
Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.
No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.
It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.
And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.
To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.
Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.
The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.
All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.
The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.
Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.
We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.
One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.
Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.
Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.
All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.
If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.
Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.
Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.
Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.