Thomas Huxley Quotes

What we find in books is like the fire in our hearths. We fetch it from our neighbors, we kindle it at home, we communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.

I want to share knowledge about things I've learned over the years with a younger generation that is seeking the truth.

Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.

It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward. Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

When every church becomes a school, every cathedral a university, every clergyman a teacher, and all their hearers brave and honest thinkers, then - and not until then - will the dream of poet, patriot, philanthropist and philosopher become a real and blessed truth.

Words let us say the things we want to say and also things we would be better off not having said. They let us know the things we need to know, and also things we wish we didn't.

Truth is the daughter of time.

Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

I willingly speak to those who know, but for those who do not know I forget.

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.

There are few earthly things more beautiful than a university a place where those who hate ignorance may strive to know, where those who perceive truth may strive to make others see.

The natural desire of good men is knowledge.

You find that all men are successes or failures. Success is the stamp of truth. I will say all men who fail to place their feet on the dome of facts do so by not sieving all truth and throwing the faulty to one side.

Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.

The more knowledge you've got, the more understanding you have, the better you are able to implement and pass it on to others.

Ignorance is never better than knowledge.

It can always be transformed into an avenue of information.

Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.

New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.

I'm against ignorance.

I'll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth.

Without television and mass communication, that knowledge wouldn't exist. So I think it actually has the possibility of turning people into more understanding and more empathetic people.

I answer questions the best I can.

Knowledge goes hand and hand with truth.