Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [221-240] of 362 Knowledge quotesKnowledge QuotesKnowledge Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes The philosophy of the classroom today will be the philosophy of government tomorrow.~ Abraham Lincoln When all think alike, no one is thinking very much.~ Walter Lippmann We must protect the right of our opponents to speak because we must hear what they have to say.~ Walter Lippmann The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.~ John Locke Virtue is harder to be got than a knowledge of the world; and, if lost in a young man, is seldom recovered.~ John Locke The most merciful thing in the world ... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.~ H. P. Lovecraft The most merciless thing in the world ... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.~ H. P. Lovecraft But it was in making education not only common to all, but in some sense compulsory on all, that the destiny of the free republics of America was practically settled.~ James Russell Lowell Within seven centuries, [the ancient Greeks] invented for itself, epic, elegy, lyric, tragedy, novel, democratic government, political and economic science, history, geography, philosophy, physics and biology; and made revolutionary advances in architecture, sculpture, painting, music, oratory, mathematics, astronomy, medicine, anatomy, engineering, law and war... a stupendous feat for whose most brilliant state Attica was the size of Hertfordshire, with a free population (including children) of perhaps 160,000.~ F. J. Lucas Thus it happens in matters of state; for knowing afar off (which it is only given a prudent man to do) the evils that are brewing, they are easily cured. But when, for want of such knowledge, they are allowed to grow so that everyone can recognize them, there is no longer any remedy to be found.~ Niccolo Machiavelli A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance: And a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.~ James Madison The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.~ James Madison It is impossible for ideas to compete in the marketplace if no forum for their presentation is provided or available.~ Thomas Mann In literature as in love, we are astonished by what is chosen by others.~ Andre Maurois It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in an argument.~ William Gibbs McAdoo My grandmother wanted me to have an education, so she kept me out of school.~ Margaret Mead It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.~ Menander To act without clear understanding, to form habits without investigation, to follow a path all one's life without knowing where it really leads -- such is the behavior of the multitude.~ Mencius The art of politics, under democracy, is simply the art of ringing it. Two branches reveal themselves. There is the art of the demagogue, and there is the art of what may be called, by a shot-gun marriage of Latin and Greek, the demaslave. They are complementary, and both of them are degrading to their practitioners. The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots. The demaslave is one who listens to what these idiots have to say and then pretends that he believes it himself.~ H. L. Mencken The psychologists and the metaphysicians wrangle endlessly over the nature of the thinking process in man, but no matter how violently they differ otherwise they all agree that it has little to do with logic and is not much conditioned by overt facts.~ H. L. Mencken Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print