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I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.

I will frankly tell you that my experience in prolonged scientific investigations convinces me that a belief in God-a God who is behind and within the chaos of vanishing points of human knowledge-adds a wonderful stimulus to the man who attempts to penetrate into the regions of the unknown.

I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor.

Just in ratio as knowledge increases, faith diminishes.

I would walk - not run - to the nearest seismograph.

Knowing that you do not know is the best. Not knowing that you do not know is an illness.

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is enlightenment.

Knowing the plumbing of the universe, intricate and awe-inspiring though that plumbing might be, is a far cry from discovering its purpose.

Knowledge conquered by labor becomes a possession -a property entirely our own.

Knowledge-full, unfettered knowledge of its own heritage, of freedom's enemies, of the whole world of men and ideas-this knowledge is a free people's surest strength.

Knowledge has no enemy except an ignorant man.

Knowledge has two extremes. The first is the pure natural ignorance in which all men find themselves at birth. The other extreme is that reached by great minds, who, having run through all that men can know, find they know nothing, and come back again to that same natural ignorance from which they set out; this is a learned ignorance which is conscious of itself.

Knowledge is folly unless grace guide it.

Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.

Knowledge is indivisible. When people grow wise in one direction, they are sure to make it easier for themselves to grow wise in other directions as well. On the other hand, when they split up knowledge, concentrate on their own field, and scorn and ignore other fields, they grow less wise - even in their own field.

Knowledge is power but only wisdom is liberty.

Knowledge is power only as long as you keep your mouth shut.

Knowledge is power only when put to use - and then only when the use made of it is constructive.

Knowledge is power. Unfortunate dupes of this saying will keep on creating, ambitiously, till they have stunned their native initiative and made their thoughts weak.

Knowledge is the best eraser in the world for disharmony, distrust, despair, and the endless physical deficiencies of man.

"Knowledge is the frontier of tomorrow.

Knowledge is the only instrument of production that is not subject to diminishing returns.

Knowledge is to be acquired only by a corresponding experience. How can we know what we are told merely? Each man can interpret another's experience only by his own.

Knowledge-it excites prejudices to call it science-is advancing as irresistibly, as majestically, as remorselessly as the ocean moves in upon the shore.

Knowledge of our duties is the most essential part of the philosophy of life. If you escape duty you avoid action. The world demands results.

Knowledge that is not put into practice is like food that is not digested.

Knowledge falters when imagination clips its wings or fears to use them.

Knowledge has always been important, of course. The ancient Egyptians did not raise the stones for the pyramids relying on the incantations of their gods. The waters in the irrigation canals of the great Indus Civilisation did not flow according to the laws of ignorance. Knowledge has always been power and wealth.

Knowledge is more a matter of learning than of the exercise of absolute judgment. Learning requires time, and in time the situation dealt with, as well as the learner, undergoes change.

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Knowledge is the distilled essence of our institutions, corroborated by experience.

Knowledge must come through action. You can have no test which is not fanciful, save by trial.

Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

Knowledge comes through likeness. And so because the soul may know everything, it is never at rest until it comes to the original idea, in which all things are one. And there it comes to rest in God.

Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

Knowledge has its boundary line, where it abuts on ignorance; on the outside of that boundary line are ignorance and miracles; on the inside of it are science and no miracles.

Knowledge has three degrees--opinion, science, illumination. The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.

Knowledge is a collective enterprise. Without it understanding is impossible. Ignorance is too often a murderous vulnerability.

Knowledge is a process, not a product.

Knowledge is a sacred cow, and my problem will be how we can milk her while keeping clear of her horns.

Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.

Knowledge is porportionate to being... You know in virtue of what you are.

Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment the treasurer, of a wise man.

Knowledge of anatomy is a tool like good brushes.

Knowledge of means without knowledge of ends is animal training.

Knowledge ... shall always bear witness like a clarion to its creator.

Knowledge was inherent in all things. The world was a library.

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Knowledge without devotion is like a stone in water.

Knowledge we have. Anyone who strives for it with particular intensity is suspect of striving against it.