Things of this world are in so constant a flux, that nothing remains long in the same state.
The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
- Topic: Knowledge
- Location: Crater Lake National Park
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature; these are the spur and reins whereby al mankind are set on work, and guided.
Freedom is to be free from restraint and violence from others.
Freedom of men under government is to have a standing rule to live by, common to every one of that society, and made by the legislative power vested in it; a liberty to follow my own will in all things when the rule prescribes not, and not to be subject to the inconstant, uncertain, unknown, arbitrary rule of another man.
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More on Knowledge
The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
They [the Americans] have all a lively faith in the perfectibility of man, they judge that the diffusion of knowledge must necessarily be advantageous, and the consequences of ignorance fatal; they all consider society as a body in a state of improvement, humanity as a changing scene, in which nothing is, or ought to be, permanent; and they admit that what appears to them today to be good, may be superseded by something better tomorrow.
There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic. A man’s own observation, what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of, is the best physic to preserve health.
The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
I keep six honest serving men (they taught me all I knew); Their names are What and Why and When And How and Where and Who.
No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
He who has so little knowledge of human natures as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
