Knowledge has its penalties and pains as 25 well as its prizes. Bulwer Lytton.
Knowledge hath a bewildering tongue, and she will stoop and lead you to the stars, and witch you with her mysteries, till gold is a forgotten dross, and power and fame toys of an hour, and woman's careless love light as the breath that breaks it. Willis.
Knowledge humbleth the great man, astonisheth the common man, and puffeth up the little man. Pr.
Knowledge in music is in the thinking, and not in memorising. H. E. Holt.
Knowledge introduceth man to acquaintance; and, as the humble stream to the ocean, so doth it conduct him into the hard-acquired presence of the prince, whence fortune floweth. Hitopadesa.
Knowledge is a perennial spring of wealth, 30 ... and of itself is riches. Saadi.
Knowledge is a retreat and shelter for us in advanced age; and if we do not plant it when young, it will give us no shade when we grow old. Chesterfield.
Knowledge is as food, and needs no less / Her temp'rance over appetite, to know / In measure what the mind may well contain, / Oppresses else with surfeit, and soon turns / Wisdom to folly, as nourishment to wind. Milton.
Knowledge is boundless; human capacity limited. Chamfort.
Knowledge is easy unto him that understandeth. Bible.