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Knowledge Quotes by John Ruskin
- Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.
- You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, will, in the quickest and delicatest…
- Science is the knowledge of constant things, not merely of passing events, and is properly less the knowledge of general laws than of existing facts.
- To use books rightly, is to go to them for help; to appeal to them when our own knowledge and power fail; to be led…
- Let every dawn of the morning be to you as the beginning of life. And let every setting of the sun be to you as…
- Drawing is a means of obtaining and communicating knowledge
- The spirit needs several sorts of food of which knowledge is only one.
- Cookery means…English thoroughness, French art, and Arabian hospitality; it means the knowledge of all fruits and herbs and balms and spices; it means carefulness, inventiveness,…
- The entire object of true education is to make people not merely do the right things, but enjoy the right things — not merely industrious,…
- The entire object of true education, is to make people not merely do the right thing, but to enjoy right things; not merely industrious, but…
- What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do.
More Knowledge Quotes
- We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that. — J. J. Abrams
- The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching. — Aristotle
- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
- Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we… — Aristotle
- Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach. — Aristotle
- All men by nature desire knowledge. — Aristotle
- Salvation means knowing the truth. We do not become anything; we are what we are. Salvation [comes] by faith and not by… — Swami Vivekananda
- Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability. — Marcus Aurelius