#knowledge

That the state of knowledge in any country will exert a directive influence on the general system of instruction adopted in it, is a principle too obvious to require investigation. ↗

— Charles Babbage

#any #country #directive #exert #general

Perhaps as good a classification as any of the main types is that of the three lusts distinguished by traditional Christianity - the lust of knowledge, the lust of sensation, and the lust of power. ↗

— Irving Babbitt

#christianity #classification #distinguished #good #knowledge

I am conscious of my inability to grasp, in all its details and positive developments, any very large portion of human knowledge. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

#any #conscious #details #developments #grasp

I thought they may have presumed too much knowledge of certain things for people who are not comedians. Like Montreal. A comic understands what it is and its importance, but someone else may not know about it. ↗

— Todd Barry

#certain #certain things #comedians #comic #else

The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#community #editorial #full #going #knowledge

Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend. ↗

— Ludwig van Beethoven

#comprehend #comprehends #entrance #higher #into

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science. ↗

— Charles Darwin

#begets #confidence #does #frequently #ignorance

We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities... still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin. ↗

— Charles Darwin

#bears #bodily #frame #his #however

Since knowledge is but sorrow's spy, It is not safe to know. ↗

— William Davenant

#knowledge #safe #since #sorrow #spy

The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#follow #knowledge #lame #practical #results