Thomas Carlyle Quotes About Knowledge
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What is all Knowledge too but recorded Experience, and a product of History; of which, therefore, Reasoning and Belief, no less than Action and Passion, are essential materials?
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Statistics, one may hope, will improve gradually, and become good for something. Meanwhile, it is to be feared the crabbed satirist was partly right, as things go: "A judicious man," says he, "looks at Statistics, not to get knowledge, but to save himself from having ignorance foisted on him."
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That there should one man die ignorant who had capacity for knowledge, this I call a tragedy.
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Just in ratio as knowledge increases, faith diminishes.
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What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
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Love is ever the beginning of knowledge as fire is of light.
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A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
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The eye sees what it brings the power to see.
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In every object there is inexhaustible meaning; the eye sees in it what the eye brings means of seeing.
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