One can decide that the principal role of knowledge is as an indispensable element in the functioning of society, and act in accordance with that decision, only if one has already decided that society is a giant machine.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Knowledge is the life of the mind.
Knowledge is not simply another commodity. On the contrary. Knowledge is never used up. It increases by diffusion and grows by dispersion.
Knowledge is power.
Knowledge is the parent of knowledge. He who possesses most of the information of his age will not quietly submit to neglect its current acquisitions, but will go on improving as long as means and opportunities offer; while he who finds himself ignorant of most things, is only too apt to shrink from a labour which becomes Herculean.
To act on the belief that we possess the knowledge and the power which enable us to shape the processes of society entirely to our liking, knowledge which in fact we do not possess, is likely to make us do much harm.
Knowledge is that possession that no misfortune can destroy, no authority can revoke, and no enemy can control. This makes knowledge the greatest of all freedoms.
Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.
Knowledge has value only insofar as it contributes to the all-round development of the whole nature of man.
Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.