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Knowledge
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- The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.
-- Charles Haddon Spurgeon
- Our minds possess by nature an insatiable desire to know the truth.
-- Cicero
- Thinking is probably the hardest work there is, which is probably why so few engage in it.
-- Henry Ford
- God spare me sclerosis of the curiosity, for the curiosity which craves to keep us
informed about the small things no less than the large is the mainspring, the dynamo, the
jet propulsion of all complete living. Our curiosities are what feed our consciousness, and
our consciousness is the proof that are minds are still functioning. Nothing that happens
to us, nothing we do, no walk we take, nothing we see or read, no one we meet or listen to,
means anything to us unless we have the mind to use our minds, and keep them refreshed.
-- John Mason Brown
- Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, have ofttimes no connection. Knowledge dwells
on heads replete with thoughts of other men; wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
Knowledge is proud that is knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
-- William Cowper
- No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions.
-- Charles P. Steinmetz
- An open mind is all very well in its way, but it ought not to be so open that there is
no keeping anything in or out of it.
-- Samuel Butler
- Merely having an open mind is nothing; the object of opening the mind, as of opening
the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
-- Gilbert Keith Chesterton
- It wasn't until quite late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say,
"I don't know."
-- W. Somerset Maugham
- The end of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know
God aright, and out of that knowledge to love Him, to imitate Him, to be like Him.
-- John Milton
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