I don’t watch it, but I know enough to comment on it.

We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free; but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free.

When ‚Paul’s Boutique‘ came out, I was one of the fans that didn’t get it.

The concept of Kimye has more cultural significance than what Page Six could write.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

The stories are not autobiographical, but they’re personal in that way. I seem to know only the things that I’ve learned. Probably some things through observation, but what I feel I know surely is personal.

Facts are stubborn things.

It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing.

The English don’t like concepts, really, not from a pop star. It’s alright if they come from an ‚intellectual,‘, but from a pop star you’re getting ahead of yourself. Part of the class game is that you shouldn’t rise above your station, and to start talking about concepts if you’re in the pop world is getting a bit uppity, isn’t it?

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know – and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.

It is paradoxical, yet true, to say, that the more we know, the more ignorant we become in the absolute sense, for it is only through enlightenment that we become conscious of our limitations. Precisely one of the most gratifying results of intellectual evolution is the continuous opening up of new and greater prospects.

The true university of these days is a collection of books.

I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible.

Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.

To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.

The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.

There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.

When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds.

There is nothing which can better deserve your patronage, than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.

Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?

I don’t think the government should be in the trailer-park business. I don’t think they know how to run a trailer park.

I’m not a reality-TV kind of guy. But it’s almost like we’re living in a reality show. Every day in this country, everybody keeps worrying about the deterioration of America, and it’s like a big reality show.

Half a truth is better than no politics.

Facts are not interesting to me.

Men don’t care what’s on TV. They only care what else is on TV.

Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?

America is just downright mean.

Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.

The wisest have the most authority.

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.

Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

I’m not in the business of ranking or debating who is what.

New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.

What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?

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.

For, verily, great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you little know it, you will be able to love it only little or not at all.

I stopped watching TV because of ‚The Wire.‘ Like, ‚The Wire‘ ruined everything for me because I don’t even want to watch anything else now.

I see the world in black and white, and I don’t like compromising.

If I get stuck, I look at a book that tells me how someone else did it. I turn the pages, and then I say, ‚Oh, I forgot that bit,‘ then close the book and carry on. Finally, after you’ve figured out how to do it, you read how they did it and find out how dumb your solution is and how much more clever and efficient theirs is!

Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.

I am not young enough to know everything.

Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.

Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.

We have no right to express an opinion until we know all of the answers.

Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.

Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

The natural desire of good men is knowledge.

People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

I don’t know what’s the matter with people: they don’t learn by understanding; they learn by some other way – by rote, or something. Their knowledge is so fragile!

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

I’m for women choosing whatever they want to do but they have to really know what they are doing.

I don’t envy or much respect people who are completely politicised.

I don’t claim to be knowledgeable about theology. Most of my knowledge comes out of my experience and the lessons in the Bible. Every Sunday I’m home I teach 45 minutes and we boiled them down to one page for the new book, ‚Through the Year with Jimmy Carter.‘

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

They know enough who know how to learn.