Men blaspheme what they do not know.

All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?

Why are women… so much more interesting to men than men are to women?

An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.

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

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

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.

Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.

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

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

All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its mechanical part.

You will always have partial points of view, and you’ll always have the story behind the story that hasn’t come out yet. And any form of journalism you’re involved with is going to be up against a biased viewpoint and partial knowledge.

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

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

I can find in my undergraduate classes, bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or even that the Sun is a star.

I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss.

You can always tell when a man’s well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.

He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

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

The only source of knowledge is experience.

People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.

Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.

For my own part, I would rather excel in knowledge of the highest secrets of philosophy than in arms.

I am not young enough to know everything.

There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.

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

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.

Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.

The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.

The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.

There are so many men and women who hold no distinctive positions but whose contribution towards the development of society has been enormous.

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

Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.

It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

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

Intuition and concepts constitute… the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.

The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who’ll get me a book I ain’t read.

It always seems to me so odd that when a man dies, he takes out with him all the knowledge that he has got in his lifetime whilst sowing his wild oats or winning successes. And he leaves his sons or younger brothers to go through all the work of learning it over again from their own experience.

How do you know what it’s like to be stupid if you’ve never been smart?

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

The men who followed Him were unique in their generation. They turned the world upside down because their hearts had been turned right side up. The world has never been the same.

Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

You can know or not know how a car runs and still enjoy riding in a car.

The trouble with our Liberal friends is not that they’re ignorant; it’s just that they know so much that isn’t so.

Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.

Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.

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

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

I think it is the height of ignorance to believe that the sexual act is an independent function necessary like sleeping or eating. Seeing, therefore, that I did not desire more children, I began to strive after self-control. There was endless difficulty in the task.

Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!

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

States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.

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