To know by rote is no knowledge; it is only a retention of what is
intrusted to the memory. That which a man truly knows may be disposed of
without regard to the author, or reference to the book from whence he
had it.--_Montaigne._
He who cherishes his old knowledge, so as continually to acquire new, he
may be a teacher of others.--_Confucius._
A taste of every sort of knowledge is necessary to form the mind, and is
the only way to give the understanding its due improvement to the full
extent of its capacity.--_Locke._
Knowledge has, in our time, triumphed, and is triumphing, over
prejudice, and over bigotry. The civilized and Christian world is fast
learning the great lesson, that difference of nation does not imply
necessary hostility, and that all contact need not be war. The whole
world is becoming a common field for intellect to act in. Energy of
mind, genius, power, wheresoever it exists, may speak out in any tongue,
and the world will hear it.--_Daniel Webster._
Knowledge once gained casts a faint light beyond its own immediate
boundaries.--_Tyndall._
The shortest and the surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to
unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to remount to first principles,
and take nobody's word about them.--_Bolingbroke._
Sorrow is knowledge; they who know the most must mourn the deepest o'er
the fatal truth; the tree of knowledge is not that of life.--_Byron._
The seeds of knowledge maybe planted in solitude, but must be cultivated
in public.--_Johnson._
Knowledge dwells in heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom, in
minds attentive to their own.--_Cowper._
It is the glorious prerogative of the empire of knowledge, that what it
gains it never loses. On the contrary, it increases by the multiple of
its own power; all its ends become means; all its attainments helps to
new conquests.--_Daniel Webster._
The love of knowledge in a young mind is almost a warrant against the
infirm excitement of passions and vices.--_Beecher._
There is nothing so minute, or inconsiderable, that I would not rather
know it than not.--_Johnson._
We always know everything when it serves no purpose, and when the seal
of the irreparable has been set upon events.--_Theophile Gautier._
All the knowledge that we mortals can acquire is not knowledge positive,
but knowledge comparative, and subject to the errors and passions of
humanity.--_Bulwer-Lytton._