Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [21-40] of 289 Learning quotesLearning QuotesLearning Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes So when any of the four pillars of government, are mainly shaken, or weakened (which are religion, justice, counsel, and treasure), men had need to pray for fair weather.~ Francis Bacon Knowledge is power.~ Sir Francis Bacon For whatever deserves to exist deserves also to be known, for knowledge is the image of existence, and things mean and splendid exist alike.~ Sir Francis Bacon There are in fact four very significant stumblingblocks in the way of grasping the truth, which hinder every man however learned, and scarcely allow anyone to win a clear title to wisdom, namely, the example of weak and unworthy authority, longstanding custom, the feeling of the ignorant crowd, and the hiding of our own ignorance while making a display of our apparent knowledge.~ Roger Bacon I'm a foe of moderation, the champion of excess. If I may lift a line from a die-hard whose identity is lost in the shuffle, "I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.~ Tallulah Bankhead Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.~ Matsuo Basho There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books.~ Rev. Henry Ward Beecher Make men large and strong and tyranny will bankrupt itself in making shackles for them.~ Rev. Henry Ward Beecher No great advance has ever been made in science, politics, or religion, without controversy.~ Lyman Beecher I thank God, we have not free schools nor printing; and I hope we shall not have these hundred years. For learning has brought disobedience, and heresy and sects into the world; and printing has divulged them and libels against the government. God keep us from both!~ Sir William Berkeley The interest of the people lies in being able to join organizations, advocate causes, and make political “mistakes” without being subjected to governmental penalties.~ Justice Hugo L. Black Freedom of the mind requires not only, or not even especially, the absence of legal constraints but the presence of alternative thoughts. The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity, but the one that removes awareness of other possibilities.~ Alan Bloom How many Catholic schools do you think teach the students to question the authority of the Pope? Do you believe Christian schools teach students to question or challenge the authority of Jesus Christ? Do military schools teach the cadets to challenge the authority of superior officers? Well, why should we then expect government schools to teach children to question the authority of government?~ Neal Boortz Government schools will teach children that government is wonderful.~ Neal Boortz I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.~ Jorge Luis Borges Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.~ James Boswell Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk of displeasure.~ Kingman Brewster There is no absolute knowledge. And those who claim it, whether they are scientists or dogmatists, open the door to tragedy. All information is imperfect. We have to treat it with humility.~ Jacob Bronowski It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.~ Giordano Bruno Nothing sedates rationality like large doses of effortless money. After a heady experience of that kind, normally sensible people drift into behavior akin to that of Cinderella at the ball.~ Warren Buffett Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print