knowledge quotes

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

To attain any assured knowledge about the soul is one of the most difficult things in the world.

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

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

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

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

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.

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