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Letter "B" » book of knowledge
«Knowledge without wisdom is a load of books on the back an ass»
«Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier»
Author: Kathleen Norris
| About:
Knowledge
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«Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge»
Author: John Wesley
(Evangelist)
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«How very seldom do you encounter in the world a man of great abilities, acquirements, experience, who will unmask his mind, unbutton his brains, and pour forth in careless and picturesque phrase all the results of his studies and observation; his knowledge of men, books, and nature. On the contrary, if a man has by any chance an original idea, he hoards it as if it were old gold; and rather avoids the subject with which he is most conversant, from fear that you may appropriate his best thoughts.»
Author: Benjamin Disraeli
(Novelist, Prime Minister)
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«After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
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«I conceive that a knowledge of books is the basis on which all other knowledge rests.»
«. . . provided that nothing like useful knowledge could be gained from them, provided they were all story and no reflection, she had never any objection to books at all.»
«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 by them into wider sight and purer conception than our own, and to receive from them the united sentence of the judges and councils of all time, against our solitary and unstable opinions.»
Author: John Ruskin
(Critic, Writer)
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«From the cheerful ways of men / Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair / Presented with a universal blank / Of nature's works to me expunged and razed, / And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out.»
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