Julius Charles Hare Quotes

Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.

Without knowledge we cannot act; with it we can and will.

Just once in a while let us exalt the importance of ideas and information.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Knowledge, may it be said, is higher than magic and is more to be sought. It is quite possible to see what is happening and yet not know what is forward, for while seeing is believing, it does not follow that either seeing or believing is knowing.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

Knowledge is a weapon. I intend to be formidably armed.

Knowledge, the object of knowledge and the knower are the three factors which motivate action; the senses, the work and the doer comprise the threefold basis of action.

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.

Knowledge is the life of the mind.

These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.

Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.

Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.

Knowledge goes hand and hand with truth.

Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have ofttimes no connection. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men, Wisdom in minds attentive to their own. Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much, Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.

Wisdom and knowledge are the most valuable things in the body.

If intelligence is the triumph of life, the spoken word is the marvellous means by which this intelligence is manifested.

Reading is a bridge to thought.

Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy

Wit does not take the place of knowledge.

Understanding that rests in what it does not understand is the finest.

All the States but our own are sensible that knowlege is power.