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John Milton Quotes on Knowledge

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1. “Deep-versed in books and shallow in himself.”

John Milton

Knowledge, Wisdom, Superficiality, Reading, Self-awareness

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

John Milton

Education, Law, Knowledge, Improvement, Mutual Learning

3. “Opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.”

John Milton

Opinion, Knowledge, Wisdom, Personal Growth, Intellectual Development

4. “For men to tell how human life began Is hard; for who himself beginning knew?”

John Milton

Origin, Life, Knowledge, Mystery, Human Limitation

5. “A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit.”

John Milton

Books, Wisdom, Knowledge, Spirit, Learning

6. “Knowledge forbidden? Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord Envy them that? Can it be a sin to know? Can it be death?”

John Milton

Knowledge, Forbidden Fruit, Curiosity, Divine Will, Human Nature

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

John Milton

Learning, God, Knowledge, Love, Spiritual Growth

8. “It was from out the rind of one apple tasted, that the knowledge of good and evil, as two twins cleaving together, leaped forth into the world.”

John Milton

Knowledge, Good And Evil, Temptation, Fall Of Man, Biblical Allusion

9. “Ink is the blood of the printing-press.”

John Milton

Writing, Printing, Communication, Knowledge, Metaphor

10. “To know that which lies before us in daily life is the prime wisdom.”

John Milton

Wisdom, Daily Life, Practicality, Present Moment, Knowledge

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

John Milton

Wisdom, Humility, Knowledge, Socratic Method, Self-awareness

12. “Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image, but thee who destroys a good book, kills reason its self.”

John Milton

Books, Knowledge, Destruction, Reason, Human Value

13. “Knowledge cannot defile, nor consequently the books, if the will and conscience be not defiled.”

John Milton

Knowledge, Morality, Books, Conscience, Purity

14. “Who ever knew Truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter?”

John Milton

Truth, Freedom, Debate, Intellectual Integrity, Knowledge

15. “Truth never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her birth.”

John Milton

Truth, Rejection, Birth, Societal Response, Knowledge

16. “The Tree of Knowledge grew fast by, Knowledge of Good bought dear by knowing ill.”

John Milton

Knowledge, Good And Evil, Temptation, Wisdom, Biblical Allusion

17. “Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, for opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.”

John Milton

Learning, Debate, Knowledge, Intellectual Growth, Wisdom

18. “Promiscuous reading is necessary to the constituting of human nature. The attempt to keep out evil doctrine by licensing is like the exploit of that gallant man who thought to keep out the crows by shutting the park gate.”

John Milton

Censorship, Knowledge, Human Nature, Freedom Of Thought, Intellectual Growth

19. “God is thy law, thou mine: to know no more Is woman's happiest knowledge and her praise. With thee conversing I forget all time.”

John Milton

Gender Roles, Divine Order, Love, Knowledge, Timelessness

20. “He who destroys a good book kills reason itself.”

John Milton

Books, Knowledge, Destruction, Reason, Intellectual Value

21. “For books are as meats and viands are; some of good, some of evil sub-stance.”

John Milton

Books, Knowledge, Good And Evil, Discernment, Intellectual Nourishment

22. “Heaven Is as the Book of God before thee set, Wherein to read His wondrous works.”

John Milton

Heaven, Divine Revelation, Nature, Knowledge, Spiritual Insight

23. “Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.”

John Milton

Liberty, Knowledge, Free Speech, Conscience, Human Rights

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