When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it: this is knowledge. 2942 Confucius: Analects. Bk. ii. Ch. 17. (Legge, Translator.) The more knowledge a man has, the better he'll do's work; and feeling's a sort o' knowledge. 2943 George Eliot: Adam Bede. Ch. 52. Knowledge exists to be imparted. 2944 Emerson: Letters and Social Aims. Progress of Culture. Knowledge is the knowing that we cannot know. 2945 Emerson: Representative Men. Montaigne. Nothing, among animals, is so beautiful as a man adorned by learning (knowledge). 2946 Epictetus: Fragments. CLII. (Long, Translator.) The value of education (knowledge), like that of gold, is valued in every place. 2947 Epictetus: Fragments. CL. (Long, Translator.) Knowledge is the parent of love; wisdom, love itself. 2948 J. C. and A. W. Hare: Guesses at Truth. Knowledge partakes of infinity; it widens with our capacities: the higher we mount in it, the vaster and more magnificent are the prospects it stretches out before us. 2949 J. C. and A. W. Hare: Guesses at Truth. Knowledge is just like the sun in the heavens, inviting us to noble deeds, and lighting our path. 2950 Moses Harvey: Lectures, Literary and Biographi cal. Knowledge is Power. Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless. 2951 Johnson: Rasselas. Ch. 41. Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it. 2952 Johnson: Boswell's Life of Johnson. 1775. (Routledge edition, Vol. ii. Ch. 11.) Knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. 2953 Johnson: Rasselas. Ch. 41. Man is not weak; knowledge is more than equivalent to force. The master of mechanics laughs at strength. 2954 Johnson: Rasselas. Ch. 13. Knowledge is the action of the soul, and is perfect without the senses, as having the seeds of all science and virtue in itself, but not without the service of the senses; but these organs the soul works. 2955 Ben Jonson: Timber; or, Discoveries made upon Men and Matter. Learning needs rest: sovereignty gives it. Sovereignty needs council: learning affords it. 2956 Ben Jonson: Timber; or, Discoveries made upon Men and Matter. The only jewel which will not decay is knowledge. John Alfred Langford: The Praise of Books. The only wealth which will not decay is knowledge. Simple as it seems, it was a great discovery that the key of knowledge could turn both ways, that it could open, as well as lock, the door of power to the many. 2959 Lowell: Among My Books. New England Two Centuries Ayo. Knowledge advances by steps, and not by leaps. Review, May, 1828.) Diffused knowledge immortalizes itself. (Edinburgh 2961 Sir James Mackintosh. Vindica Gallicæ. When a man hath been laboring the hardest labor in the deep mines of knowledge, hath furnished out his findings in all their equipage, drawn forth his reasons as it were a battle ranged, scattered and defeated all objections in his way, calls out his adversary into the plain, offers him the advantage of wind and sun, if he please, only that he may try the matter by dint of argument; for his opponents then to skulk, to lay ambushments, to keep a narrow bridge of licensing where the challenger should pass, though it be valor enough in soldiership, is but weakness and cowardice in the wars of truth. 2962 Milton: Areopagitica. To know by rote is no knowledge; 'tis no more than only to retain what one has intrusted to his memory. That which a man rightly knows and understands, he is the free disposer of at his own full liberty, without any regard to the author from whom he had it, or fumbling over the leaves of his book. 2963 Montaigne: Essays. Bk. i. Ch. 25. (Hazlitt, Trans.) And this is the state and virtue of wisdom, or temperance, and self-knowledge, which is just knowing what a man knows, and what he does not know. 2964 Plato: Charmides. (Jowett, Translator.) Every kind of knowledge may be sought from ignoble motives, and for ignoble ends; and in those who so possess it, it is ignoble knowledge, while the very same knowledge is in another mind an attainment of the highest dignity, and conveying the greatest blessing. 2965 Ruskin: Modern Painters. Preface. Second edition. Knowledge is like current coin. A man may have some right to be proud of possessing it, if he has worked for the gold of it, and assayed it, and stamped it, so that it may be received of all men as true, or earned it fairly, being already assayed; but if he has done none of these things, but only had it thrown on his face by a passer-by, what cause has he to be proud? 2966 Ruskin The Stones of Venice. The Fall. Knowledge is a perennial spring of wealth; and if a man of education ceases to be opulent, yet he need not be sorrowful, for knowledge of itself is riches. 2967 Saadi: The Gulistan. Of the Effects of Whosoever acquires knowledge, and did not practise it, resembleth him who ploughed but did not sow. 2968 Saadi: The Gulistan. Ch. 8. Rules for Conduct in Life. No. 40. Sweet food of sweetly uttered knowledge. 2969 Sir Philip Sidney: The Defence of Poesy. A man with knowledge, but without energy, is a house furnished but not inhabited; a man with energy but no knowledge, a house dwelt in but unfurnished. 2970 John Sterling: Essays and Tales. Thoughts. It is an old discovery that man passes from knowledge to doubt, and thence again attains to knowledge. But it is a vulgar error to suppose that we return not only to the same knowledge, but in the same forms, and under the same limitations as before. 2971 John Sterling: Essays and Tales. Thoughts, Knowledge, in truth, is the great sun of the firmament. Life and power are scattered with all its beams. 2972 Daniel Webster: Speech, June 17, 1825, Charlestown, Mass. Bunker Hill Monument. L. LABOR see Cheerfulness, Equity, Industry, Political Economy, Riches, Thoroughness, Wealth, Work. The best things are all too cheaply purchased by a lifetime's toil. 2973 A. Bronson Alcott: Table Talk. III. Pursuits. Misfortune. Labor humanizes, exalts. 2974 A. Bronson Alcott: Table Talk. III. Pursuits. Carlyle Essays. Work. Labor, wide as the earth, has its summit in heaven. 2975 Labor is a school of benevolence as well as justice. 2976 William Ellery Channing: Self-Culture. (Address, Boston, Mass., September, 1838.) Our lot is labor. 2977 Rufus Choate: Address and Orations. Dedica tion of the Peabody Institute. Labor is the curse of the world, and nobody can meddle with it without becoming proportionately brutified. 2978 Hawthorne: American Note-Books, Aug. 12, 1841. Nothing is so envied as genius, nothing so hopeless of attainment by labor alone. Though labor always accompanies the greatest genius, without the intellectual gift, labor alone will do little. 2979 B. R. Haydon: Table Talk. I should not like to be rich. It makes you too forgetful of your Creator. Struggle, struggle. 2980 Labor B. R. Haydon: Table Talk. - the expenditure of vital effort in some form — is the measure, nay, it is the maker, of values. 2981 J. G. Holland: Plain Talks on Familiar Subjects. VII. Cost and Compensation. To labor rightly and earnestly is to walk in the golden track that leads to God. It is to adopt the regimen of manhood and womanhood. It is to come into sympathy with the great struggle of humanity toward perfection. It is to adopt the fellowship of all the great and good the world has ever known. 2982 J. G. Holland: Plain Talks on Familiar Subjects. III. Work and Play. Everything useful to the life of man arises from the ground; but few things arise in that condition which is requisite to render them useful. 2983 Hume Essays. XXVI. Of Interest. Labor is exercise continued to fatigue; exercise is labor used only while it produces pleasure. 2984 Johnson: Letters to and from the Late Samuel Labor for labor's sake is against nature. 2985 John Locke: The Conduct of the Understanding. Labor is grand offices in the palace of Art. 2986 George MacDonald: Weighed and Wanting. Ch. 11 Labor was appointed at the creation. 2987 Horace Mann: Annual Reports on Education. Taxation reaches down to the base; but the base is labor, and labor pays all. 2988 Donn Piatt: Memories of the Men who Saved the Labor has an agreeable end in the result we gain; but the means are also agreeable, for there are pleasures in the work itself. 2989 Theodore Parker: Critical and Miscellaneous Labor has a reflective action, and gives the working-man a blessing over and above the natural result which he looked for. Theodore Parker: Critical and Miscellaneous Writings. V. Thoughts on Labor. 2990 The duty of labor is written on a man's body: in the stout muscle of the arm, and the delicate machinery of the hand. 2991 Theodore Parker: Critical and Miscellaneous Writings. V. Thoughts on Labor. Labor is the handmaid of religion. 2992 Charles H. Parkhurst: Sermons. I. The Pattern in the Mount. No labor is hopeless. 2993 Joseph Roux: Meditations of a Parish Priest. Mind, Talent, Character. No. 23. (Hapgood, Translator.) The hand of little employment hath the daintier sense. 2994 Shakespeare: Hamlet. Act v. Sc. 1. Labor is the best test of the energies of men, and furnishes an admirable training for practical wisdom. 2995 Genius can never despise labor. 2996 Samuel Smiles: Self-Help. Ch. 2. Abel Stevens: Life of Mme de Staël. Ch. 38. Abel Stevens: Life of Mme de Staël. Ch. 16. Labor is the law of happiness. 2997 Labor in all its variety, corporeal and mental, is the instituted means for the methodical development of all our powers under the direction and control of will. 2998 Timothy Titcomb (J. G. Holland): Gold-Foil |