I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.

No one even knows one percent of the fabulous history of Man; but thanks to history, we know about occurrences that go beyond the limits of the imaginable.

Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.

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.

Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.

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

God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: ‚This is my country.‘

It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they were found because it was possible to find them.

There is no darkness but ignorance.

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.

The only source of knowledge is experience.

You cannot open a book without learning something.

Everything I do, I hope, is that I represent something, and I represent the right things to my children and give them the right sense of what they’re capable of and the world as it should be seen.

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

A witty saying proves nothing.

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.‘

We are wiser than we know.

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity.

A critic should be taught to criticise a work of art without making any reference to the personality of the author.

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.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

The more extensive a man’s knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.

Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.

The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.

Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

The American doctor, in my opinion, possesses a combination of conservatism and that other quality which has put the United States in the forefront in almost every department of science – that is, an eagerness to know what it is really all about in order that he may not be the one left behind if there is something to it.

It is my belief that nearly any invented quotation, played with confidence, stands a good chance to deceive.

Women have to be active listeners and interrupters – but when you interrupt, you have to know what you are talking about.

The natural desire of good men is knowledge.

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.

I’ve analyzed the best I can… and I have not found an impeachable offense, and therefore resignation is not an acceptable course.

Do not go gentle into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

It has not yet become obvious to me that there’s no real problem. I cannot define the real problem; therefore, I suspect there’s no real problem, but I’m not sure there’s no real problem.

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. ‚Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after you.

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.

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

The Cuban model doesn’t even work for us anymore.

To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.

Trying to be fascinating is an asinine position to be in.

Too much of what is called ‚education‘ is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.

All art is quite useless.

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.

The United States has made serious mistakes in the conduct of its foreign affairs, which have had unfortunate repercussions long after the decisions were taken.

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.

More people should read books. It’s the most concentrated experience you can have.

You’ve got to invest in the world, you’ve got to read, you’ve got to go to art galleries, you’ve got to find out the names of plants. You’ve got to start to love the world and know about the whole genius of the human race. We’re amazing people.

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.