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Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.: Joseph Addison

By superior capacity and extensive knowledge a new man often rises to favour.: Joseph Addison

The desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall.: Francis Bacon

Knowledge is power.: Francis Bacon

Knowledge will ever be a wandering and indigested thing if it be but a commixture of a few notions that are at hand and occur, and not excited from a sufficient number of instances, and those well collated.: Francis Bacon

A knave or fool can do no harm, even by the most sinistrous and absurd choice.: Richard Bentley

He that would make a real progress in knowledge must dedicate his age as well as youth—the latter growth as well as the first-fruits—at the altar of truth.: Bishop George Berkeley

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.: Lord Bolingbroke

Divers things we agree to be knowledge, which yet are so uneasy to be satisfactorily understood by our imperfect intellects, that let them be delivered in the clearest expressions, the notions themselves will yet appear obscure.: Robert Boyle

Knowledge is made by oblivion, and to purchase a clear and warrantable body of truth, we must forget and part with much we know.: Sir Thomas Browne

Would truth dispense, we could be content with Plato, that knowledge were but remembrance, that intellectual acquisition were but reminiscential evocation.: Sir Thomas Browne

You begin with the attempt to popularize learning and philosophy; but you will end in the plebification of knowledge.: Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The tree of knowledge is grafted upon the tree of life; and that fruit which brought the fear of death into the world, budding on an immortal stock, becomes the fruit of the promise of immortality.: Sir Humphry Davy

Matched against the master of “ologies” in our days, the most accomplished of Grecians is becoming what the Master had become long since in competition with the political economist.: Thomas De Quincey

The whole body of the arts and sciences composes one vast machinery for the irritation and development of the human intellect.: Thomas De Quincey

While man was innocent he was likely ignorant of nothing that imported him to know.: Joseph Glanvill

The most pompous seeming knowledge that is built on the unexamined prejudices of sense, stands not.: Joseph Glanvill

It is the interest of mankind, in order to the advance of knowledge, to be sensible they have yet attained it but in poor and diminutive measure.: Joseph Glanvill

Among the objects of knowledge two especially commend themselves to our contemplation: the knowledge of God and the knowledge of ourselves.: Sir Matthew Hale

All other knowledge merely serves the concerns of this life, and is fitted to the meridian thereof: they are such as will be of little use to a separate soul.: Sir Matthew Hale

Seldom was ever any knowledge given to keep, but to impart: the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.: Bishop Joseph Hall

Knowledges (or cognitions), in common use with Bacon and our English philosophers till after the time of Locke, ought not to be discarded. It is, however, unnoticed by any English lexicographer.: Sir William Hamilton

I would employ the word noetic to express all those cognitions which originate in the mind itself.: Sir William Hamilton

For a spur of diligence, we have a natural thirst after knowledge ingrafted in us.: Richard Hooker

Knowledge imparteth in the minds of all men, whereby both general principles for directing of human actions are comprehended, and conclusions derived from them, upon which conclusions groweth, in particularity, the choice of good and evil.: Richard Hooker

All kinds of knowledge have their certain bounds; each of them presupposeth many things learned in other sciences and known beforehand.: Richard Hooker

The seeds of knowledge may be planted in solitude, but must be cultivated in public.: Dr. Samuel Johnson

Knowledge always desires increase; it is like fire, which must first be kindled by some external agent, but which will afterwards propagate itself.: Dr. Samuel Johnson

As knowledge advances, pleasure passes from the eye to the ear; but returns, as it declines, from the ear to the eye.: Dr. Samuel Johnson

Knowledge, which is the highest degree of the speculative faculties, consists in the perception of the truth of affirmative or negative propositions.: John Locke

Outward objects, that are extrinsical to the mind; and its own operations, proceeding from powers intrinsical, and proper to itself, which, when reflected on by itself, become also objects of its contemplation, are the original of all knowledge.: John Locke

Getting and improving our knowledge in substances only by experience and history is all that the weakness of our faculties in this state of mediocrity, while we are in this world, can attain to.: John Locke

They who would advance in knowledge should lay down this as a fundamental rule, not to take words for things.: John Locke

It will be an unpardonable as well as childish peevishness if we undervalue the advantages of our knowledge, and neglect to improve it.: John Locke

Others despond at the first difficulty, and conclude that making any progress in knowledge farther than serves their ordinary business is above their capacities.: John Locke

God, having endowed man with faculties of knowing, was no more obliged to implant those innate notions in his mind, than that, having given him reason, hands, and material, he should build him bridges.: John Locke

The knowledge of things alone gives a value to our reasonings, and preference of one man’s knowledge over another’s.: John Locke

The contempt of all other knowledge, as if it were nothing in comparison of law or physic, of astrology or chemistry, coops the understanding up within narrow bounds, and hinders it from looking abroad into other provinces of the intellectual world.: John Locke

To have knowledge in all the objects of contemplation is what the mind can hardly attain unto; the instances are few of those who have in any measure approached towards it.: John Locke

Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.: Seneca

The knowledge of what is good and what is evil, what ought and what ought not to be done, is a thing too large to be compassed, and too hard to be mastered, without brains and study, parts and contemplation.: Robert South

Where a long course of piety has purged the heart, and rectified the will, knowledge will break in upon such a soul like the sun shining in his full might.: Robert South

If God gives grace, knowledge will not stay long behind; since it is the same spirit and principle that purifies the heart and clarifies the understanding.: Robert South

In a seeing age, the very knowledge of former times passes but for ignorance in a better dress.: Robert South

Our knowledge is our power, and God our strength.: Robert South

’Tis the property of all true knowledge, especially spiritual, to enlarge the soul by filling it; to enlarge it without swelling it; to make it more capable, and more earnest to know, the more it knows.: Thomas Sprat

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.: Lawrence Sterne

Which who mislike, the fault is in their judgments quite out of taste, and not in the sweet food of sweetly uttered knowledge.: Sir Philip Sydney

A man by a vast and imperious mind, and a heart large as the sand upon the sea-shore, could command all the knowledge of nature and art.: John Tillotson

There is a knowledge which is very proper to man, and lies level to human understanding,—the knowledge of our Creator and of the duty we owe to him.: John Tillotson

Whatsoever other knowledge a man may be endued withal, he is but an ignorant person who doth not know God, the author of his being.: John Tillotson

He that doth not know those things which are of use for him to know is but an ignorant man, whatever he may know besides.: John Tillotson

Do not think that the knowledge of any particular subject cannot be improved, merely because it has lain without improvement.: Dr. Isaac Watts

The notions and sentiments of others’ judgments, as well as of our own memory, makes our property: it does, as it were, concoct our intellectual food, and turns it into a part of ourselves.: Dr. Isaac Watts

Ample souls among mankind have arrived at that prodigious extent of knowledge which renders them the glory of the nation where they live.: Dr. Isaac Watts

What an unspeakable happiness would it be to a man engaged in the pursuit of knowledge, if he had but a power of stamping his best sentiments upon his memory in indelible characters!: Dr. Isaac Watts

Virtue and vice, sin and holiness, and the conformation of our hearts and lives to the duties of true religion and morality, are things of more consequence than the furniture of the understanding.: Dr. Isaac Watts

The word knowledge strictly employed implies three things, viz., truth, proof, and conviction.: Richard Whately

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