Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [61-80] of 362 Knowledge quotesKnowledge QuotesKnowledge Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Through zeal, knowledge is gotten; through lack of zeal, knowledge is lost; let a man who knows the double path of gain and loss thus place himself that knowledge may grow.~ Buddha No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.~ Edmund Burke Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.~ Edmund Burke The people never give up their liberties, but under some delusion.~ Edmund Burke There are three estates in Parliament but in the Reporters' Gallery yonder there sits a Fourth Estate more important far than they all. It is not a figure of speech or witty saying, it is a literal fact, very momentous to us in these times.~ Edmund Burke I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.~ John Cage The people’s right to obtain information does not, of course, depend on any assured ability to understand its significance or use it wisely. Facts belong to the people simply because they relate to interests that are theirs, government that is theirs, and votes that they may desire to cast, for they are entitled to an active role in shaping every fundamental decision of state.~ Edmond Cahn An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.~ Albert Camus You cannot become a truly effective advocate unless you know all sides of your subject thoroughly, opposing arguments as well as your own.~ G. R. Capp It is time for our school systems to stop accepting the gospel of that false religion and start doing their due diligence. Our children should be taught about the demonstrable solar cycles; and the whole human-caused Global Warming theory, along with the Hockey Stick Hoax, should be taught only as another example, after Piltdown Man and pre-Copernican theories of planetary movement, of how science can be corrupted when ideology gets ahead of the data.~ Orson Scott Card I choose free libraries as the best agencies for improving the masses of the people, because they give nothing for nothing. They only help those who help themselves. They never pauperize. They reach the aspiring and open to these chief treasures of the world -- those stored up in books. A taste for reading drives out lower tastes.~ Andrew Carnegie Only the history of free peoples is worth our attention; the history of men under a despotism is merely a collection of anecdotes.~ Nicolas-Sebasstien Chamfort What is education? Properly speaking, there is no such thing as education. Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another. Whatever the soul is like, it will have to be passed on somehow, consciously or unconsciously, and that transition may be called education. ... What we need is to have a culture before we hand it down. In other words, it is a truth, however sad and strange, that we cannot give what we have not got, and cannot teach to other people what we do not know ourselves.~ Gilbert Keith Chesterton The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names.~ Chinese Proverb Moral cowardice and intellectual corruption are the natural concomitants of unchallenged privilege.~ Noam Chomsky The public library is the most dangerous place in town.~ John Ciardi Wise men are instructed by reason; men of less understanding, by experience; the most ignorant, by necessity; the beasts, by nature.~ Marcus Tullius Cicero Precisely in proportion to our own intellectual weakness will be our credulity as to those mysterious powers assumed by others.~ Charles Caleb Colton To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it.~ Charles Caleb Colton Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.~ Confucius Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print