Imparting knowledge is only lighting other men's candles at our lamp without depriving ourselves of any flame.

We read deeply for varied reasons most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough that we need to know ourselves better that we require knowledge not just of self and others but of the way things are.

If we don't empower ourselves with knowledge then we're gonna be led down a garden path.

We cannot stop natural disasters but we can arm ourselves with knowledge: so many lives wouldn't have to be lost if there was enough disaster preparedness.

Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge is thought so unnecessary an Accomplishment for a Woman that few will give themselves the Trouble to assist us in the Attainment of it.

There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn when teachers themselves are taught to learn.

We can't have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing then afterwards we may be led on to master the evidence for ourselves.

A civilization is a heritage of beliefs customs and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries elements difficult at times to justify by logic but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere since they open up for man his inner distance.

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves or we know where we can find information upon it.