"Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing."
-John Locke
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"Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge it is thinking that makes what we read ours.“
-John Locke
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"One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant."
-John Locke
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"To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality."
-John Locke
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"It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth."
-John Locke
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"The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its author salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure."
-John Locke
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"As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears."
-John Locke
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"Belief and knowledge are considered to be two different things. But they are not."
-Stanley Fish
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"Here, class attendance is expected and students are required to take notes, which they are tested on. What is missing, it seems to me, is the use of knowledge, the practical training."
-Harrison Salisbury
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"Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity."
-Abraham Cowley
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"My father was a lawyer and to my best knowledge nobody in my family before had interest in science."
-George Andrew Olah
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"Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an imagination which worked with great power upon the facts of his own experience."
-Carl Clinton Van Doren
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"What is research but a blind date with knowledge?"
-Will Harvey
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