Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [341-360] of 362 Knowledge quotesKnowledge QuotesKnowledge Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Any formal attack on ignorance is bound to fail because the masses are always ready to defend their most precious possession -- their ignorance.~ Hendrik van Loon The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbors, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.~ Voltaire The secret of being tiresome is to tell everything.~ Voltaire Ten million ignorances do not constitute one knowledge.~ Clemens von Metternich Education rears disciples, imitators, and routinists, not pioneers of new ideas and creative geniuses. The schools are not nurseries of progress and improvement, but conservatories of tradition and unvarying modes of thought.~ Ludwig von Mises There are for man only two principles available for a mental grasp of reality, namely, those of teleology and causality. What cannot be brought under either of these categories is absolutely hidden to the human mind. An event not open to an interpretation by one of these two principles is for man inconceivable and mysterious. Change can be conceived as the outcome either of the operation of mechanistic causality or of purposeful behavior; for the human mind there is no third way available.~ Ludwig von Mises To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.~ Marilyn vos Savant A physicist is an atoms way of knowing about atoms.~ George Wald In some ways, certain books are more powerful by far than any battle.~ Henry Wallace ...and Whereas both Houses of Congress have by their joint committee requested me to recommend to the people of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer, to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many signal favors of Almighty God, especially a form of government for their safety and happiness. Now, therefore, I do recommend and assign Thursday, the 26th day of November, next to be devoted by the people of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being Who is the beneficent Author of all the good that was, or will be ...that we may then all unite in rendering unto Him our sincere and humble thanks for His kind care and protection of the people of this country previous to there becoming a nation... And also that we then unite in most humbly offering our prayers and supplications to the great Lord and Ruler of Nations, and beseech Him to pardon our national and other transgressions... to render our National Government a blessing to all the people by constantly being a governmment of wise, just and Constitutional laws, discreetly and faithfully executed and obeyed...(and) to promote the knowledge and practice of true religion and virtue, and the increase of science among us...given under my hand at the City of New York, the 3rd day of October in the Year of Our Lord 1789.~ George Washington If we are wise, let us prepare for the worst.~ George Washington Knowledge is the only fountain both of love and the principles of human liberty.~ Daniel Webster While the collateral consequences of drugs such as cocaine are indisputably severe, they are not unlike those which flow from the misuse of other, legal, substances.~ Justice Byron R. White Intelligence appears to be the thing that enables a man to get along without education. Education enables a man to get along without the use of his intelligence.~ Albert Edward Wiggin A sure sign of a genius is that all of the dunces are in a confederacy against him.~ Frank Lloyd Wright Most people wouldn't know music if it came up and bit them on the ass.~ Frank Zappa Remember, Information is not knowledge; Knowledge is not Wisdom; Wisdom is not truth; Truth is not beauty; Beauty is not love; Love is not music; Music is the best.~ Frank Zappa Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read.~ Frank Zappa Fact of the matter is, there is no hip world, there is no straight world. There's a world, you see, which has people in it who believe in a variety of different things. Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, use that something to support their own existence.~ Frank Zappa Drop out of school before your mind rots from exposure to our mediocre educational system. Forget about the Senior Prom and go to the library and educate yourself if you've got any guts. Some of you like pep rallies and plastic robots who tell you what to read. Forget I mentioned it... Rise for the flag salute.~ Frank Zappa Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print