I kind of thought that stand-up comedy would suffer from the Internet because people seem to know more about the craft of stand-up than ever before. I thought it would seem trite. Kind of like if you know more about magicians, you wouldn’t love them.

It’s like the Wild West, the Internet. There are no rules.

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

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.

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

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

Read about history, and you become aware that nothing starts with us.

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.

I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.

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.

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

We are wiser than we know.

There are some Christian people who taste and see and enjoy religion in their own souls, and who get at a deeper knowledge of it than books can ever give them, though they should search all their days.

Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.

He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.

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.‘

There are massive efforts on the part of the internet’s corporate owners to try to direct it to become a technique of marginalisation and control.

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

I never even thought of myself as deadpan until someone wrote an article about me about a year after I was doing comedy. There was a paper called the ‚Boston Phoenix,‘ and someone wrote a description of what I was doing and that’s where I first saw ‚deadpan.‘

Wisdom is found only in truth.

Let’s not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.

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.

It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

It’s hard to tell with these Internet startups if they’re really interested in building companies or if they’re just interested in the money. I can tell you, though: If they don’t really want to build a company, they won’t luck into it. That’s because it’s so hard that if you don’t have a passion, you’ll give up.

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.

I think the thing we see is that as people are using video games more, they tend to watch passive TV a bit less. And so using the PC for the Internet, playing video games, is starting to cut into the rather unbelievable amount of time people spend watching TV.

It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.

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

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.

Collecting facts is important. Knowledge is important. But if you don’t have an imagination to use the knowledge, civilization is nowhere.

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

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

The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.

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

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.

The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

Science is but an image of the truth.

We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

We as women, we have to understand that we know more, just even instinctively, than we think we do.

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

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

The more you know of your history, the more liberated you are.

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

Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.

There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating – people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.

To know the laws is not to memorize their letter but to grasp their full force and meaning.

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

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.