John Milton Quotes About Knowledge

Quotes about: Knowledge

• The end of all learning is to know God, and out of that knowledge to love and imitate Him.

  John Milton

  Love, Inspirational, Knowledge

• Knowledge forbidden? Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord Envy them that? Can it be sin to know, Can it be death? And do they only stand By ignorance? Is that their happy state, The proof of their obedience and their faith? O fair foundation laid whereon to build Their ruin!

  John Milton

  Ignorance, Knowledge, Envy

  John Milton, Elijah Fenton (1795). “Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books”, p.103

• The teachers of our law, and to propose
  What might improve my knowledge or their own.

  John Milton

  Teacher, Knowledge, Law

  John Milton (1824). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors, Principally from the Edition of Thomas Newton, Charles Dunster, and Thomas Warton, to which is Prefixed, Newton's Life of Milton”, p.27

• The first and wisest of them all professed To know this only, that he nothing knew.

  John Milton

  Knowledge, Firsts, Knows

  Paradise Regained bk. 4, l. 293 (1671) See Socrates 2

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