Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Knowledge is like money: to be of value it must circulate, and in circulating it can increase in quantity and, hopefully, in value.
Louis L'Amour

The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.
Henry Ward Beecher

Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.
Henry Ward Beecher

Lack of knowledge... that is the problem.
W. Edwards Deming

It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.
Ambrose Bierce

The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge.
Ambrose Bierce

Ardor, n. The quality that distinguishes love without knowledge.
Ambrose Bierce

The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.
Jean Jacques Rousseau

Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.
Jean Jacques Rousseau

What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It's close to philosophy, except in philosophy you go horizontally while in mysticism you go vertically.
Elie Wiesel

For also knowledge itself is power.
Francis Bacon

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
Francis Bacon

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.
Francis Bacon

The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.
Francis Bacon