"Every branch of human knowledge, if traced up to its source and final principles, vanishes into mystery."
"Intuition does not in itself amount to knowledge, yet cannot be disregarded by philosophers and psychologists."
"The knowledge of the ancient languages is mainly a luxury."
"Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity."
"The frontiers of knowledge in the various fields of our subject are expanding at such a rate that, work as hard as one can, one finds oneself further and further away from an understanding of the whole."
"I hope to attend it as Japan needs to tell the world the lessons, knowledge and reflections learned from the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant."
"My whole life, I had been taught to read and study, to seek understanding in knowledge of history, of cultures."
"I awake with a not entirely sickened knowledge that I am merely young again and in a funny way at peace, an observer who is aware of time's chariot, aware that some metamorphosis has occurred."
"Knowledge is the prime need of the hour."
"And I'm walking along and we're laughing, kidding, joking, and see he understood the leader, the one we called the leader, had some knowledge of English, although limited."
"Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again."
"After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books."
"The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge."
"The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth."
"One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises."
"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
"Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom."
"If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants."
"A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle."
"Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write."
"Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it."
"What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child."
"Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future."
"To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge."
"If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability."
"If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it."
"No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge."
"Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge."
"When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge."
"A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education."