4 Matthew Arnold Quotes on Knowledge

Matthew Arnold quotes on knowledge

14. Resolve to be thyself; and know, that he Who finds himself, loses his misery.

60. Hither and thither spins The wind-borne mirroring soul, A thousand glimpses wins, And never sees a whole.

81. I am bound by my own definition of criticism: a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world.

106. The whole scope of the essay is to recommend culture as the great help out of our present difficulties; culture being a pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting to know, on all the matters which most concern us, the best which has been thought and said in the world; and through this knowledge, turning a stream of fresh and free thought upon our stock notions and habits, which we now follow staunchly but mechanically, vainly imagining that there is a virtue in following them staunchly which makes up for the mischief of following them mechanically.