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

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.

Wine gives a man nothing… it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.

No man who worships education has got the best out of education… Without a gentle contempt for education no man’s education is complete.

Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.

A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.

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

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.

Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.

I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.

Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.

Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.

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

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past – whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.

Behind every successful man is a woman, behind her is his wife.

There are many things that I don’t understand.

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

A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.

The history of science shows that theories are perishable. With every new truth that is revealed we get a better understanding of Nature and our conceptions and views are modified.

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

The first step in a person’s salvation is knowledge of their sin.

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

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

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

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

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.

A man’s true character comes out when he’s drunk.

A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.

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.

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

It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.

When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.

There are some Christian people who taste and see and enjoy religion in their own souls, and who get at a deeper knowledge of it than books can ever give them, though they should search all their days.

No one undertakes research in physics with the intention of winning a prize. It is the joy of discovering something no one knew before.

Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.

In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.

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.

Freedom is a man’s natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.

Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.

Good men by nature, wish to know. I know that many will call this useless work… men who desire nothing but material riches and are absolutely devoid of that of wisdom, which is the food and only true riches of the mind.

In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.

Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.

Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.

A man makes you feel important – makes you glad you are a woman.

For, verily, great love springs from great knowledge of the beloved object, and if you little know it, you will be able to love it only little or not at all.

Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.

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.

There is nothing which can better deserve your patronage, than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.

Science is nothing but perception.

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves – and the better the teacher, the better the student body.

The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.

I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.