Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its mechanical part.

Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity.

For, verily, great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you little know it, you will be able to love it only little or not at all.

Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man.

New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.

Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.

The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.