Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

Knowledge shall vanish away. St. Paul.

Knowledge that a thing is false is a truth. Schopenhauer.

Knowledge that terminates in curiosity and speculation is inferior to that which is useful, and of all useful knowledge that is the most so which consists in a due care and just notion of ourselves. St. Bernard.

Knowledge, the wing wherewith we fly to 20 heaven. 2 Hen. VI., iv. 7.

Knowledge to their eyes her ample page, / Rich with the spoils of time, did ne'er unroll; / Chill penury repress'd their noble rage, / And froze the genial current of the soul. Gray.

Knowledge, when wisdom is too weak to guide her, / Is like a headstrong horse that throws the rider. Quarles.

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice. Hor.

Knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. Johnson.

Knowledge without justice ought to be called 25 cunning rather than wisdom. Plato.

Knowledge without practice is like a glass eye, all for show, and nothing for use. Swinnock.