Philosophy consists of speculations about matters where exact knowledge is not yet possible.
Skill to do comes of doing; knowledge comes by eyes always open, and working hands; and there is no knowledge that is not power.
You must acquire the best knowledge first, and without delay; it is the height of madness to learn what you will later have to unlearn.
Liberty of speech invites and provokes liberty to be used again, and so bringeth much to a man's knowledge.
Without music there can be no perfect knowledge, for there is nothing without it. For even the universe itself is said to have been put together with a certain harmony of sounds, and the very heavens revolve under the guidance of harmony.
To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of things eternal; to knowledge, the rational apprehension of things temporal.
The power of thought is the light of knowledge, the power of will is the energy of character, the power of heart is love. Reason, love and power of will are perfections of man.
Upon the progress of knowledge the whole progress of the human race is immediately dependent: he who retards that, hinders this also.
A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality.
The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts.
There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance.
And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.
We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.
The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.
The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.
Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.
The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.
All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.
Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.
Beware of false knowledge it is more dangerous than ignorance.
He that hath knowledge spareth his words.
I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.
The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge that begins with experience.
As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.
Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.
The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.
