William Ralph Inge - Knowledge Quotes

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No word in our language — not even "Socialism"— has been employed more loosely than "Mysticism." … The history of the word begins in close connexion with the Greek mysteries. A mystic is one who has been, or is being, initiated into some esoteric knowledge of Divine things, about which he must keep his mouth shut…

William Ralph Inge

The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts but of values.

William Ralph Inge

The fruit of the tree of knowledge always drives man from some paradise or another. And even the paradise of fools is not an unpleasant abode while it is habitable.

William Ralph Inge