Henry Ward Beecher Quotes About Knowledge

• Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Happiness, Wisdom, Nature

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

• Nowhere else can one find so miscellaneous, so various, an amount of knowledge as is contained in a good newspaper.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Knowledge, Newspapers, Miscellaneous

• Many men are stored full of unused knowledge. Like loaded guns that are never fired off, or military magazines in times of peace, they are stuffed with useless ammunition.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Military, Knowledge, Gun

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

• We ought to be ten times as hungry for knowledge as for food for the body.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Knowledge, Body, Hungry

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

• A love of flowers would beget early rising, industry, habits of close observation, and of reading. It would incline the mind to notice natural phenomena, and to reason upon them. It would occupy the mind with pure thoughts, and inspire a sweet and gentle enthusiasm; maintain simplicity of taste; and ... unfold in the heart an enlarged, unstraightened, ardent piety.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Education, Sweet, Reading

  Henry Ward Beecher (1859). “Plain and Pleasant Talk about Fruits, Flowers and Farming”, p.120

• Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it. and the love of knowledge, in a young mind, is almost a warrant against the inferior excitement of passions and vices.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Children, Growing Up, Book

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and Ears”, p.156

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