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Liberty of speech invites and provokes liberty to be used again, and so bringeth much to a man's knowledge.
Francis Bacon






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.
Isidore of Seville






To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of things eternal; to knowledge, the rational apprehension of things temporal.
Augustine of Hippo






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.
Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach






Upon the progress of knowledge the whole progress of the human race is immediately dependent: he who retards that, hinders this also.
Johann Gottlieb Fichte






A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality.
Milan Kundera






The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts.
Bertrand Russell






There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.
Bertrand Russell






True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
Henry David Thoreau






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.
Bertrand Russell






And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.
Plato






We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.
Michel de Montaigne






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.
Gérard de Nerval / 






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






Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.
Ludwig van Beethoven






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






All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe






Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.
John Locke - An Essay Concerning Human Understanding / 






Beware of false knowledge it is more dangerous than ignorance.
George Bernard Shaw






He that hath knowledge spareth his words.
Francis Bacon






I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.
Marcus Tullius Cicero






Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
Albert Einstein






It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge that begins with experience.
Immanuel Kant - Critique of Pure Reason / 






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.
Arthur Schopenhauer






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.
Immanuel Kant






The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.
René Descartes






There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.
Albert Einstein






Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.
Plato






Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.
Plato






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