Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? 2.66K
The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge. 2.55K
Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind. 790
After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books. 2.68K
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. 2.83K
There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it. 2.47K
If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants. 803
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. 756
The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom. 718
Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives. 867
Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms. 2.39K
I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art. 703
