Top 26 Latin Knowledge Quotes
#1. What good was a personal victory to someone who'd spent her life losing herself for the greater good of everyone else? -Plain Truth
Jodi Picoult
#2. The Latin motto over Poindexter's new Pentagon office reads Scientia Est Potentia - "knowledge is power." Exactly: the government's infinite knowledge about you is its power over you.
William Safire
#3. Your moral stance depends on what you think is being aborted. If you don't believe it to be a person but part of a woman's body, of course you will be pro-choice. I would be virulently pro-choice if I didn't believe it to be a person.
Louise Mensch
#4. His (Islamic astronomer al-Farghani) legacy also endures through the Italian writer and poet Dante (1265-1321), who derived most of the astronomical knowledge he included in his DIVINE COMEDY from the writings of al-Farghani (whom he referred to by his Latin name, Alfraganus).
Jim Al-Khalili
#5. The monster - if there was one - never revealed itself to me again. But what I had learned over the past year was that monsters abound, usually in plain sight.
Sara Gruen
#6. Amazing, I thought nobody could tell that man what to do.
-Foalan to Bridei
Talking about Broichan
Juliet Marillier
#7. Science is only a Latin word for knowledge
Carl Sagan
#8. The word 'color' means at its origin to 'cover' or 'hide.' Matter eats up light and 'covers' it with a confusion of color.
Robert Smithson
#9. The most important belief we possess is a true knowledge of who God is.
The second most important belief is who we are as children of God, because we cannot consistently behave in a way that is inconsistent with how we perceive ourselves.
Neil T. Anderson
#10. Jesus was a great worker, and His disciples must not be afraid of hard work.
Charles Spurgeon
#12. Oh yeah? How about M'Lin the cursed?
L.J.Smith
#13. Demon mean knowledge in Greek, especially about the material world. Science means knowledge in Latin. A jurisdictional dispute is exposed, even if we look no further
Carl Sagan
#14. The sum of things to be known is inexhaustible, and however long we read, we shall never come to the end of our story-book.
(Introductory lecture as professor of Latin at University College, London, 3 October 1892)
A.E. Housman
#15. It has always seemed to me a pity that the young people of our generation should grow up with such scant knowledge of Greek and Latin literature, its wealth and variety, its freshness and its imperishable quality.
James Loeb
#16. Good to know: Doctors can't cure you of being a beast.
Alex Flinn
#17. Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.
George Will
#18. Don't make a big deal out of a small deal - and you know everything is s small deal. Nothing is a big deal.
Art Hochberg
#19. We are a scientific civilization. That means a civilization in which knowledge and its integrity are crucial. Science is only a Latin word for knowledge ... Knowledge is our destiny.
Jacob Bronowski
#20. There is a negative proof of the value of Latin: No one seems to boast of not knowing it.
Peter Brodie
#21. If you're going to do something that crazy, save it for when it'll make a difference, Lieutenant Skaaiat had said, and I had agreed. I still agree.
The problem is knowing when what you are about to do will make a difference.
Ann Leckie
#22. In England only uneducated people show off their knowledge; nobody quotes Latin or Greek authors in the course of conversation, unless he has never read them.
George Mikes
#23. I do feel fortunate to have some knowledge of the great Latin American writers, including some that are probably not that well known in English. I'm thinking of Jose Maria Arguedas, whom I read when I was living in Lima, and who really impacted the way I viewed my country.
Daniel Alarcon
#25. Man's respect for knowledge is one of his most peculiar characteristics. Knowledge in Latin is scientia, and science came to be the name of the most respectable kind of knowledge.
Imre Lakatos
#26. The mind unconsciously loves problems because they give you an identity of sorts.
Eckhart Tolle
