Men blaspheme what they do not know.

All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.

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

How many things there are concerning which we might well deliberate whether we had better know them.

The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one’s self.

Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.

Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

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

There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in.

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

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

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

Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn’t they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines… There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters.

Libraries raised me.

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

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

We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.

In order to arrive at knowledge of the motions of birds in the air, it is first necessary to acquire knowledge of the winds, which we will prove by the motions of water in itself, and this knowledge will be a step enabling us to arrive at the knowledge of beings that fly between the air and the wind.

But men must know, that in this theatre of man’s life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.

Great teachers emanate out of knowledge, passion and compassion.

I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.

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

Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.

I’ve found men are less likely to let petty things annoy them.

You cannot open a book without learning something.

I’ve never had a dislike for men. I’ve been badly treated by some. But I’ve been loved greatly by some. I married a lot of them.

Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries – for heavy ones they cannot.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

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

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.

There is no such thing as justice in the abstract; it is merely a compact between men.

As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become.

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.

As commanders and staff officers, we are coaches and sentries for our units: how can we coach anything if we don’t know a hell of a lot more than just the TTPs?

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

I want parents to teach that academic intelligence is essential, but so is financial intelligence.

Men and women may form associations for and among themselves and be governed by stipulations that are mutually acceptable.

What women need to understand is that men don’t communicate. It’s not intentional or on purpose. We’re just not as emotional. You ladies feel like you have to express yourselves.

Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.

If you can’t read, the only thing you can do is enjoy the pictures, not the whole story. Reading is the key to knowledge. Knowledge is the key to understanding. So read on, young man! Read on, young lady!

Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.

If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own.

The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.

Science is nothing but perception.

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.

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

True liberal government is founded on the emancipation of men.

An ignorant person is one who doesn’t know what you have just found out.

Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him.

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

He that hath knowledge spareth his words.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

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

Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.

We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.

Paranoia is just another word for ignorance.

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