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Knowledge Quotes by Thomas Carlyle
- A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
- What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection…
- The eye sees what it brings the power to see.
- The authentic insight and experience of any human soul, were it but insight and experience in hewing of wood and drawing of water, is real…
- Statistics, one may hope, will improve gradually, and become good for something. Meanwhile, it is to be feared the crabbed satirist was partly right, as…
- A judicious man uses statistics, not to get knowledge, but to save himself from having ignorance foisted upon him.
- We were wise indeed, could we discern truly the signs of our own time; and by knowledge of its wants and advantages, wisely adjust our…
- High Air-castles are cunningly built of Words, the Words well bedded also in good Logic-mortar; wherein, however, no Knowledge will come to lodge.
- Love is ever the beginning of knowledge as fire is of light.
- What is all knowledge except recorded experience, and a product of history?
- In every object there is inexhaustible meaning; the eye sees in it what the eye brings means of seeing.
- That there should one man die ignorant who had capacity for knowledge, this I call a tragedy.
- What is all Knowledge too but recorded Experience, and a product of History; of which, therefore, Reasoning and Belief, no less than Action and Passion,…
- A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge. --Thomas Carlyle
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