For all knowledge and wonder (which is the seed of knowledge) is an impression of pleasure in itself.
Knowledge and human power are synonymous,
since the ignorance of the cause frustrates the
effect.
Bacon—Novum Organum. Aphorism in.
Knowledge bloweth up, but charity buildeth up.
Bacon—Rendering of I Cor. VIII. I.
Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est.
For knowledge, too, is itself a power.
Bacon—Treatise. De Hoeresiis. Hobbes—
Leviathan. Ch. LX; Ch. X. Used phrase
"Knowledge is power."
| seealso = (See also Emerson, Johnson)
| topic = Knowledge
| page = 420
}}
{{Hoyt quote
| num =
| text = <poem>Pursuit of knowledge under difficulties.
Title given by Lord Brougham to a book
published under the superintendence of the
Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. (1830) Duke of Sussex—Address
to the Royal Society. (1839) Prop. Chaik
—Volume bearing this title. (1828)
Men are four:
He who knows not and knows not he knows not,
he is a fool—shun him;
He who knows not and knows he knows not, he is
simple—teach him;
He who knows and knows not he knows, he is
asleep—wake him;
He who knows and knows he knows, he is wise—
follow him!
Lady Burton—Life of Sir Richard Burton.
Given as an Arabian Proverb. Another
rendering in the Spectator, Aug. 11, 1894.
P. 176. In Hesiod—Works and Days. 293.
. Quoted by Aristotle—Nic. Eth. I. 4.
Cicero—Pro Cluent. 31. Lrvr—Works.
XXII. 29.
He knew what's what, and that's as high
As metaphysic wit can fly.
Butler—Hudibras. Pt. I. Canto I. L. 149.
Deep sighted in intelligences,
Ideas, atoms, influences.
Butler—Hudibras. Pt. I. Canto I. L. 533.
Nor do I know what is become
Of him, more than the Pope of Borne.
Butler—Hudibras. Pt. I. Canto EI. L.
263.
He knew whats'ever 's to be known,
But much more than he knew would own.
Butler—Hudibras. Pt. II. Canto III. L.
297.
„
| seealso = (See also {{sc|Skelton)
The tree of knowledge is not that of life.
| author = Byron
| work = Manfred. Act I. Sc. 1.
Knowledge is not happiness, and science
But an exchange of ignorance for that
Which is another kind of ignorance.
Byron—Manfred. Act II. Sc. 4.
There's lots of people—this town wouldn't hold
them;
Who don't know much excepting what's told
them.
Well Carleton—City Ballads. P. 143.
For love is ever the beginning of Knowledge,
as fire is of light.
Carlyle—Essays. Death of Goethe.
What is all Knowledge too but recorded Experience, and a product of History; of which,
therefore, Reasoning and Belief, no less than
Action and Passion, are essential materials?
Carlyle—Essays. On History.
Ne quis nimis. (From the Greek.)
Know thyself.
Inscription attributed to Chllo op Thales,
Pythagoras, Solon, on the Temple of
Apollo at Delphi.
| seealso = (See also Cicero, Coleridge, Diogenes, Juvenal, La Fontaine, Terence)
| topic = Knowledge
| page = 420
}}
{{Hoyt quote
| num =
| text = <poem>Nam non solum scire aliquid, artis est, sh
quaedam ars etiam docendi.
Not only is there an art in knowing a thirp,
but also a certain art in teaching it.
Cicero—De Legzbus. II. 19.
18 •
Minime sibi quisque notus est, et diffjcillime
de se quisque sentit.
Every one is least known to himself, and it
is very difficult for a man to know himself.
Cicero—De Oratore. III. 9.
| seealso = (See also Chllo)
| topic = Knowledge
| page = 420
}}
{{Hoyt quote
| num =
| text = <poem>Nescire autem quid ante quam natus sis accident, id est semper esse puerum.
Not to know what happened before one was
born is always to be a child.
Cicero—De Oratore. XXXIV.
And is this the prime
And heaven-sprung message of the olden time?
Coleridge. Referring to "Know thyself."
| seealso = (See also Chllo)
| topic = Knowledge
| page = 420
}}
{{Hoyt quote
| num =
| text = <poem>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.
Confucius—Analects. Bk. II. Ch.XVII.
| seealso = (See also Socrates)
| topic = Knowledge
| page = 420
}}
{{Hoyt quote
| num =
| text = <poem>Knowledge and Wisdom, far from being one,
Have oft-times no connexion. Knowledge dwells
In heads replete with thoughts of other men,
Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall
be increased.
Daniel. XII. 4.
Knowledge comes
Of learning well retain'd, unfruitful else.
Dante—Vision of Paradise. Canto V. L. 41.
