Francois Rabelais Quotes About Knowledge

Quotes about: Knowledge

• Science sans conscience n' est que le ruine de l'âme. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruine of the soule.

  Francois Rabelais

  Knowledge, Conscience

• What harm in learning and getting knowledge even from a sot, a pot, a fool, a mitten, or a slipper.
  [Fr., Que nuist savoir tousjours et tousjours apprendre, fust ce
  D'un sot, d'une pot, d'une que--doufle
  D'un mouffe, d'un pantoufle.]

  Francois Rabelais

  Knowledge, Mittens, Slippers

• The age was still dark and reeked of the havoc and misfortunes of the Goths who had put all good literature to destruction. But, by God's goodness, in my time light and dignity were returned to letters, and I see there such improvement that today I would have great difficulty being admitted to the most elementary classes--I, who in my time was reputed to be (and not wrongly) to be the most knowledgeable person of the century.

  Francois Rabelais

  Education, Knowledge, Dark

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