Horace
Horace
Quintus Horatius Flaccus, known in the English-speaking world as Horace, was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus. The rhetorician Quintilian regarded his Odes as just about the only Latin lyrics worth reading: "He can be lofty sometimes, yet he is also full of charm and grace, versatile in his figures, and felicitously daring in his choice of words."...
NationalityRoman
ProfessionPoet
wise knowledge being-wise
Sapere aude. Dare to be wise.
knowledge injustice
Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.
knowledge all-things knows
To know all things is not permitted.
knowledge knows
One cannot know everything.
knowledge use impart
If you know anything better than this candidly impart it; if not, use this with me.
knowledge ignorance miracle
Knowledge has its boundary line, where it abuts on ignorance; on the outside of that boundary line are ignorance and miracles; on the inside of it are science and no miracles.
knowledge creation
Knowledge is a mimic creation.
knowledge world firsts
As each generation comes into the world devoid of knowledge, its first duty is to obtain possession of the stores already amassed. It must overtake its predecessors before it can pass by them.
children knowledge garden
When the panting and thirsting soul first drinks the delicious waters of truth, when the moral and intellectual tastes and desires first seize the fragrant fruits that flourish in the garden of knowledge, then does the child catch a glimpse and foretaste of heaven.
knowledge brave may
Knowledge is but an instrument, which the profligate and the flagitious may use as well as the brave and the just.
knowledge childhood thrill
If there is anything for which I would go back to childhood, and live this weary life over again, it is for the burning, exalting, transporting thrill and ecstasy with which the young faculties hold their earliest communion with knowledge.
wise knowledge land
It is well when the wise and the learned discover new truths; but how much better to diffuse the truths already discovered amongst the multitudes. Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power; and while a philosopher is discovering one new truth, millions of truths may be propagated amongst the people.... The whole land must be watered with the streams of knowledge.
knowledge humans human-power
Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.
believe knowledge half
I ain't one of those who believe that a half knowledge of a subject is useless, but it has been my experience that when a fellow has that half knowledge he finds it's the other half which would really come in handy.