#knowledge

There are those who seek knowledge for the sake of knowledge; that is Curiosity. There are those who seek knowledge to be known by others; that is Vanity. There are those who seek knowledge in order to serve; that is Love. ↗

— Bernard of Clairvaux

#knowledge-power #serve-the-people #inspirational

We acknowledge but one motive - to follow the truth as we know it, whithersoever it may lead us; but in our heart of hearts we are well assured that the truth which has made us free, will in the end make us glad also. ↗

— Mortimer Adler

#also #assured #end #follow #free

The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty. ↗

— James Madison

#diffusion #guardian #knowledge #liberty #only

The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#doubt #ignorance #intelligence #knowledge #philosophy

....a good book can teach you about the world and about yourself. You learn more than how to read better; you also learn more about life. You become wiser. Not just more knowledgeable - books that provide nothing but information can produce that result. But wiser, in the sense that you are more deeply aware of the great and enduring truths of human life. ↗

— Mortimer J. Adler

#education #knowledge #education

Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago. ↗

— Horace Mann

#growth #intelligence #knowledge #opinion #intelligence

There are three classes of intellects: one which comprehends by itself; another which appreciates what others comprehend; and a third which neither comprehends by itself nor by the showing of others; the first is the most excellent, the second is good, and the third is useless. ↗

— Niccolò Machiavelli

#knowledge #intelligence

Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#knowledge #life #living #lost #where

I demand that my books be judged with utmost severity, by knowledgeable people who know the rules of grammar and of logic, and who will seek beneath the footsteps of my commas the lice of my thought in the head of my style. ↗

— Louis Aragon

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The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes. ↗

— Avicenna

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