Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [301-320] of 362 Knowledge quotesKnowledge QuotesKnowledge Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes The more I truly learn, I realize the less I truly know.~ Eric Schaub Liberalism regards all absolutes with profound skepticism, including both moral imperatives and final solutions... Insistence upon any particular solution is the mark of an ideologue...~ Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. All truth passes through 3 stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.~ Arthur Schopenhauer It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing.~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca Of course, however, the living voice and the intimacy of a common life will help you more than the written word. You must go to the scene of action, first, because men put more faith in their eyes than in their ears, and second, because the way is long if one follows precepts, but short and helpful, if one follows patterns.~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca That most knowing of persons – gossip.~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca The best ideas are common property.~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca Withdraw into yourself, as far as you can. Associate with those who will make a better man of you. Welcome those whom you yourself can improve. The process is mutual; for men learn while they teach.~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca Our lack of constant awareness has also permitted us to accept definitions of freedom that are not necessarily consistent with the actuality of being free. Because we have learned to confuse the word with the reality the word seeks to describe, our vocabulary has become riddled with distorted and contradictory meanings smuggled into the language.~ Butler D. Shaffer Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.~ George Bernard Shaw A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.~ George Bernard Shaw The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.~ George Bernard Shaw The right to know is like the right to live. It is fundamental and unconditional in its assumption that knowledge, like life, is a desirable thing.~ George Bernard Shaw One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.~ George Bernard Shaw Truth has always been found to promote the best interests of mankind.~ Percy Bysshe Shelley [T]here is a difference between lions and asses; and he is a fool who knows not that swords were given to men, that none might be slaves, but such as know not how to use them.~ Algernon Sidney Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.~ Lillian Smith In 100 years we have gone from teaching Latin and Greek in high school to teaching Remedial English in college.~ Joseph Sobran The Internet…has become the voice of the people in the first genuine experiment in democracy yet conducted in America. It stands ready to serve every facet, every faction.~ Gerry Spence The first great struggle for liberty was in the realm of thought. The libertarians reasoned that freedom of thought would be good for mankind; it would promote knowledge, and increased knowledge would advance civilization. But the authoritarians protested that freedom of thought would be dangerous, that people would think wrong, that a few were divinely appointed to think for the people.~ Charles T. Sprading Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print