Quotes

This page contains the resources that I have found useful in my personal and professional life. Admittedly, it is an eclectic list. It contains everything from quotes and books that I like to podcasts, videos, and slideshows.

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I will update this list as I discover new resources. If you have a resource you think I should add, please email me.

Knowledge is a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man’s estate.

Francis Bacon (1561-1626) The Advancement of Learning, I, v.11

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

George Santayana (1863-1952) The Life of Reason, I, Reason in Common Sense

What’s past is prologue

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) The Tempest, Act II, Sc. i, l. 261

For all knowledge and wonder (which is the seed of knowledge) is an impression of pleasure in itself

Francis Bacon (1561-1626) The Advancement of Learning [1605] bk I, i, 3

Nam et ipsa scienta potestas est.

Knowledge is power

Francis Bacon (1561-1626) Meditationes Sacrae [1597] De Haeresibus

There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

Socrates (469-399 B.C.E) from DIOGENES LAERTIUS, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, II, 31

I for my part am not one of those who have innate knowledge. I am simply one who loves the past and who is diligent in investigating it.

Confucius (551-479 B.C.E.) Analects, 7:19

The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.

John Locke (1632-1704) Some Thoughts Concerning Education, 88

Knowledge comes, wisdom lingers

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) Locksley Hall, L.137