“The Word of God must be Read and Heard with Diligence that so you may arrive to the Knowledge that is needful for you.”
Cotton Mather
“Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.”
Albert Einstein
“It is odd that 'sword' and 'words' have the same letters and even more strange that they have the same effect.”
Brandi Keeler
“And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; / And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; / And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.”
Bible
“Therefore, as ye abound in every thing, in faith, and utterance, and knowledge, and in all diligence, and in your love to us, see that ye abound in this grace also.”
“Learning is like a boundless sea, only diligence can reach the shore. - Chinese proverb”
Chinese Proverb
“Knowledge comes by eyes always open and working hands; and there is no knowledge that is not power.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson