knowledge Quotes

It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.

We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities.

This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts.

Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.

Education is the cheap defense of nations.

The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation.

Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.

Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.

Good order is the foundation of all things.

It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.