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

Women. They are a complete mystery.

I believe the Republicans have never thought that democracy was anything but a tribal myth.

Although the big word on the left is ‚compassion,‘ the big agenda on the left is dependency.

I haven’t gone out of my way to seek advice from people I don’t know.

If you judge, investigate.

The less you know, the more you believe.

To understand a name you must be acquainted with the particular of which it is a name.

Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

We cannot wish for that we know not.

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

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

I guess every single word I’ve ever said is going to be dissected now.

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

The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.

But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.

Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.

The false is nothing but an imitation of the true.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

All art is quite useless.

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.

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

Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

History should be written as philosophy.

I am a part of everything that I have read.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

Experts often possess more data than judgment.

All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.

All genuinely intellectual work is humorous.

The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.

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.

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

What religion a man holds, to what race he belongs, these things are not important; the really important thing is this knowledge: the knowledge of God’s plan for men. For God has a plan, and that plan is evolution.

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

All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.

The ‚free-floating intellectual‘ may occupy himself with problems because of their inherent interest and importance, perhaps to little effect.

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.

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

There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge – that is everywhere.

Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one.

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

Knowledge is true opinion.

When you revolutionize education, you’re taking the very mechanism of how people be smarter and do new things, and you’re priming the pump for so many incredible things.

We seem gradually to be groping toward an understanding of the world of subatomic particles, but we really do not know how far we have yet to go in this task.

Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.

Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else’s head instead of with one’s own.

Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.

To learn something but not to do is really not to learn. To know something but not to do is really not to know.

It’s not a coincidence that in the Scriptures, poverty is mentioned more than 2,100 times. It’s not an accident. That’s a lot of air time, 2,100 mentions.

We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.

Many admire, few know.

I think the materialist conception of history is valid.

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing.

Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.

Man is the only animal capable of reasoning, though many others possess the faculty of memory and instruction in common with him.