True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

You learn to know a pilot in a storm.

My friends are people who like building cool stuff. We always have this joke about people who want to just start companies without making something valuable. There’s a lot of that in Silicon Valley.

A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies.

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.

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

All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.

Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.

Science is nothing but perception.

We’re close friends – the American people, the Israeli people, our governments. There’s absolutely no daylight – none – between us and the Israelis on the question of Israel’s security.

I am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.

Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.

Plato is my friend; Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.

George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.

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

Friends are thieves of time.

Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness.

He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

One science only will one genius fit; so vast is art, so narrow human wit.

Each piece, or part, of the whole of nature is always merely an approximation to the complete truth, or the complete truth so far as we know it. In fact, everything we know is only some kind of approximation because we know that we do not know all the laws as yet.

When you revolutionize education, you’re taking the very mechanism of how people be smarter and do new things, and you’re priming the pump for so many incredible things.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

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

I am a part of everything that I have read.

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.

You’ve got to reach a hand of friendship across the aisle and across philosophies in this country.

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.

In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.

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

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

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

Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends.

No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world.

Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

I think that when we know that we actually do live in uncertainty, then we ought to admit it; it is of great value to realize that we do not know the answers to different questions. This attitude of mind – this attitude of uncertainty – is vital to the scientist, and it is this attitude of mind which the student must first acquire.

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

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

I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.

My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will, never, never surrender to what is 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?

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

I had a friend who was a clown. When he died, all his friends went to the funeral in one car.

Our Creator expects His children everywhere to educate themselves.

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

You cannot open a book without learning something.

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.

Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless!

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.