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

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

Corruption is one of the most common reasons I hear in views that criticize aid.

To understand a name you must be acquainted with the particular of which it is a name.

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

We cannot wish for that we know not.

New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.

Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?

Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.

I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance.

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.

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances, and demonstrations for impressions.

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

I’m for women choosing whatever they want to do but they have to really know what they are doing.

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.

A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

Folks don’t like to have somebody around knowing more than they do.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

A clever, ugly man every now and then is successful with the ladies, but a handsome fool is irresistible.

Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.

The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.

You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher; our future depends on the quality of education of our children today.

We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.

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

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.

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

I wish I had known when I was in the White House what I know now about the Third World.

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

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

The gods‘ service is tolerable, man’s intolerable.

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

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.

What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

Knowledge of the past and of the places of the earth is the ornament and food of the mind of man.

The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice.

The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.

A man does what he must – in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures – and that is the basis of all human morality.

A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.

Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.

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

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.

Temptation is just the feeling that you’re the most independent person on planet Earth. That you know everything. That’s something that we all go through as a kid. Now, this lifestyle that I’m in, the same thing exists! But it’s 10 times worse, because everything is at my disposal. When you’re in the limelight, you can get anything you want.

Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.

Great teachers emanate out of knowledge, passion and compassion.

There’s nothing you can know that isn’t known.

The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.

In that film, the man and the part met. As far as I’m concerned, that part is Greg’s for life. I’ve had many, many offers to turn it into musicals, into TV or stage plays, but I’ve always refused.

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

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

Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.