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Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.

Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence.

The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.

The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.

Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge that begins with experience.

It is very strange that most people do not care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations.

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.

The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period. When it has come to the knowledge of good and evil it is stronger, but we care less about it.

There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge... observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts reflection combines them experimentation verifies the result of that combination.

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.

If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?

The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Knowledge is proud that it knows so much wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.

Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent it is a salutation, not an embrace.

When you deal with a person who's experiencing dementia, you can see where they are struggling with knowledge. You can see what they forget completely, what they forget but they know what they once knew. You can tell how they are trying to remember.

I think a lot of people, even Christians, are willing to be satisfied with gaining lots and lots of biblical knowledge - and many people go to Bible studies and do not realize it is not enough to know what's right, it is applying the information and the knowledge that you have.