knowledge Quotes

Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.

Learning is finding out what you already know.

Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.

I cannot live without books.

Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error.

He who knows best knows how little he knows.

To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.

I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.

I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.

Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.