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Knowledge Quotes by Thomas Huxley
- All knowledge is good. It is impossible to say any fragment of knowledge, however insignificant or remote from one's ordinary pursuits, may not some day…
- Any one who has studied the history of science knows that almost every great step therein has been made by the "anticipation of Nature," that…
- The saying that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing is, to my mind, a very dangerous adage. If knowledge is real and genuine, I…
- What men need is as much knowledge as they can organize for action; give them more and it may become injurious. Some men are heavy…
- Our reverence for the nobility of manhood will not be lessened by the knowledge that man is in substance and in structure, one with the…
- The foundation of all morality is to have done, once and for all, with lying; to give up pretending to believe that for which there…
- Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.
- Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
- If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?
- The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith the one unpardonable…
- The medieval university looked backwards; it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The modern university looks forward, and is a factory of new…
- The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
- I really see no harm which can come of giving our children a little knowledge of physiology. ... The instruction must be real, based upon…
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- Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach. — Aristotle
- All men by nature desire knowledge. — Aristotle
- The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading. — David Bailey