Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.
Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.
Real knowledge, like everything else of value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for, studied for, thought for, and, more that all, must be prayed for.
Knowledge is not just the preserve of the educated elite. Just because someone has not had a formal education, that does not mean he does not have wisdom and common sense.
All the teaching I had ever received had failed to make me apply such intelligence as I was possessed of, directly and vividly: there had never been any sunshine, as regards language, in the earlier grey days of learning, for the sky had always pelted with gerunds and optatives.
Knowledge, learning, is an eternal thing.
The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything.
My intellect was quickened at divinity school, and my abilities to discern were strengthened, and that's always valuable.
Form your life humanly, and you have done enough: but you will never reach the height of art and the depth of science without something divine.
Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.