The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.

For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.

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

I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say definitely what is and what is not possible.

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

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

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.

What’s real freedom? Real freedom is being able to not have my way and still be just as happy as if I did.

You all look like happy campers to me. Happy campers you are, happy campers you have been, and, as far as I am concerned, happy campers you will always be.

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

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

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.

It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

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.

The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.

Men blaspheme what they do not know.

I would never exchange my life with anybody else’s.

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

I’m strictly for Stevenson. I don’t dig the intellectual bit, but I’m telling you, man, he knows the most.

Religion and science are the two conjugated faces or phases of one and the same complete act of knowledge – the only one which can embrace the past and future of evolution and so contemplate, measure and fulfil them.

I am not a fan of books.

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.

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?

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.

There are as many opinions as there are experts.

No one wants advice – only corroboration.

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.

The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.

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

Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

Knowledge is true opinion.

Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.

When I was 8 years old, it mattered what my favorite singer said and wore and expressed opinions about.

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.

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.

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

I don’t really care how the Patriots are perceived, truthfully. I really don’t. I really don’t. Look, if you’re a fan of our team, you root for us, you believe in our team, and you believe in what we’re trying to accomplish. If you’re not a fan of us, you have a different opinion.

Study men, not historians.

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

Although I’m only fourteen, I know quite well what I want. I know who is right and who is wrong. I have my opinions, my own ideas and principles, and although it may sound pretty mad from an adolescent, I feel more of a person than a child. I feel quite independent of anyone.

Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.

The more you know the less you need to say.

The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.

I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.

A lot of people are bored of all the political correctness.

The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.

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

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

Convictions, in the end, they can be dangerous, but a world without them is just kind of an awful kind of gray, amorphous mass.

Education is not merely neglected in many of our schools today, but is replaced to a great extent by ideological indoctrination.

I have zero desire, just so you know, to be in the limelight. I don’t think it’s good for the country to have a former president criticize his successor. You’re not going to see me giving my opinions in the public arena, until I start selling my book. I’m going to emerge then submerge.

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.

Doubt grows with knowledge.