Men blaspheme what they do not know.

The glory of the nation rests in the character of her men. And character comes from boyhood. Thus, every boy is a challenge to his elders.

The degree of one’s emotions varies inversely with one’s knowledge of the facts.

The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.

Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.

Science is nothing but perception.

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own.

The book you don’t read won’t help.

My weaknesses have always been food and men – in that order.

Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.

Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade.

I have done one thing that I think is a contribution: I helped Buddhist science and modern science combine. No other Buddhist has done that. Other lamas, I don’t think they ever pay attention to modern science. Since my childhood, I have a keen interest.

Men are like lions. We hunt.

Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.

Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.

The best books… are those that tell you what you know already.

Libraries raised me.

In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.

There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

We’re all caught up in circumstances, and we’re all good and evil. When you’re really hungry, for instance, you’ll do anything to survive. I think the most evil thing – well, maybe that’s too strong – but certainly a very evil thing is judgment, the sin of ignorance.

Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.

I’ve found men are less likely to let petty things annoy them.

I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Love is a really scary thing, and you never know what’s going to happen. It’s one of the most beautiful things in life, but it’s one of the most terrifying. It’s worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories.

Men exist for the sake of one another.

An empowered organisation is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organisational success.

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.

The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.

I tell you in truth: all men are Prophets or else God does not exist.

Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.

All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.

The people respect and believe in men who fulfill their duty.

It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.

There happen to be a lot of people around who spent an hour on the Internet and think they know a lot of physics, but it doesn’t work like that… There’s a reason there are graduate schools in these departments.

Most people wouldn’t know music if it came up and bit them on the ass.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.

Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.

An ignorant person is one who doesn’t know what you have just found out.

The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance.

Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him.

A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

I am a part of everything that I have read.

Temptation is just the feeling that you’re the most independent person on planet Earth. That you know everything. That’s something that we all go through as a kid. Now, this lifestyle that I’m in, the same thing exists! But it’s 10 times worse, because everything is at my disposal. When you’re in the limelight, you can get anything you want.

It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.

It isn’t what we don’t know that gives us trouble, it’s what we know that ain’t so.

Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?

To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.

And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.