Knowledge Source Quotes

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

Greece appears to be the fountain of knowledge; Rome of elegance

Though I may not . . . be able to quote other authors, I shall rely on that which is much greater and more worthy - on experience.

God, the source of all knowledge, should never have been expelled from our children's classrooms.

Fundamental ideas are not a consequence of experience, but a result of the particular constitution and activity of the mind, which is independent of all experience in its origin, though constantly combined with experience in its exercise.

The Holocaust is the most documented tragedy in recorded history. And therefore, later on, if there will be a later on, anyone wishing to know will know where to go for knowledge.

Just because someone has gone to an elite school and college does not make him smarter than the person who has grown up on street knowledge.

The ancient saying, "There is nothing in the intellect which was not first in some way in the senses," and senses being explorers of the world, opens the way to knowledge.

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books.

Why do you read many books? The great book is within your heart. Open the pages of this inexhaustible book, the source of all knowledge. You will know everything.

Mathematics - the unshaken Foundation of Sciences, and the plentiful Fountain of Advantage to human affairs.

All of a sudden, we've lost a lot of control,' he said. 'We can't turn off our internet; we can't turn off our smartphones; we can't turn off our computers. You used to ask a smart person a question. Now, who do you ask? It starts with g-o, and it's not God.

As a research tool, the internet is invaluable.

It is from the scope and wisdom of the economists of the past that we must reap the knowledge with which to face the future.

No amounts of stone and bone could yield the kinds of information that the paintings gave so freely.

Let us suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas; how comes it to be furnished? Whence comes it by that vast store which the busy and boundless fancy of man has painted on it with an almost endless variety? Whence has it all the materials of reason and knowledge? To this I answer, in one word, from experience.

Gradually the conviction gained recognition that all knowledge about things is exclusively a working-over of the raw material furnished by the senses. ... Galileo and Hume first upheld this principle with full clarity and decisiveness.

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.

I know this because Tyler knows this.

Everything I ever learned I was told by someone else.

What the soul sees and has experienced, that it knows; the rest is appearance, prejudice and opinion.

People talk about revelation, and say it has ceased; but what ignorance it bespeaks, when man knows not the least thing on earth without revelation.

Think how slow would be your progress in learning without printed books: you could study only manuscripts, and those necessarily must be very few in number. Learn from this to value your books, and always handle them with care.

There is no perfect knowledge which can be entitled ours, that is innate; none but what has been obtained from experience, or derived in some way from our senses.

Epistemology is the study of knowledge. By what conduit do we know what we know?