Famous quotes containing the words knowledge and/or society:
“If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)
“In a town-meeting, the great secret of political science was uncovered, and the problem solved, how to give every individual his fair weight in the government, without any disorder from numbers. In a town-meeting, the roots of society were reached. Here the rich gave counsel, but the poor also; and moreover, the just and the unjust.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)