Knowledge and Wisdom Quotes

“He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass.”

— Edgar R. Fiedler

“One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego. The self is more distant than any star.”

— G. K. Chesterton

“A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry; hence university education.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.”

— Henry James

“Never mistake motion for action.”

— Ernest Hemingway

“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”

— Oscar Wilde

“Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.”

— Francis Bacon

“Thinking is the talking of the soul with itself.”

— Plato

“Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.”

— Blaise Pascal

“The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.”

— Plato

“Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.”

— Michel de Montaigne

“No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“The three great elements of modern civilization: gun powder, printing, and the Protestant religion.”

— Thomas Carlyle

“A young man who isn't a socialist hasn't got a heart; an old man who is a socialist hasn't got a head.”

— David Lloyd George

“Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.”

— Bernard Baruch

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

— Socrates

“Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

“You know what your problem is? It's that you haven't seen enough movies. All of life's riddles are answered in the movies.”

— Steve Martin

“Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.”

— Ellen DeGeneres

“The pen is the tongue of the mind.”

— Horace

“Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability.”

— William Osler

“To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.”

— Nicolaus Copernicus

“The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched; a tree does not know itself to be wretched.”

— Blaise Pascal

“There is no great genius without some touch of madness.”

— Aristotle

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.”

— Lao Tzu

“If you would take, you must first give. This is the beginning of intelligence.”

— Lao Tzu

“Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”

— Lewis Carroll

“Wisdom begins at the end.”

— Daniel Webster

“Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.”

— Anton Chekhov

“Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.”

— Marian Wright Edelman

“Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“First learn the meaning of what you say and then speak.”

— Epictetus

“The true method of knowledge is experiment.”

— William Blake

“Music is part of us and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.”

— Boethius

“The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.”

— Martin Heidegger

“Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.”

— Oswald Chambers

“Nothing in life is to be feared; it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”

— Marie Curie

“I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool, but be wise.”

— Montesquieu

“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience.”

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.”

— Thomas Carlyle

“Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.”

— Edsger W. Dijkstra

“It is better to illuminate than merely to shine; to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate.”

— Thomas Aquinas

“The best books are those that tell you what you know already.”

— George Orwell

“Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.”

— Bill Gates

“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”

— Thomas Merton

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.”

— Jim Rohn

“Wonder is the desire for knowledge.”

— Thomas Aquinas

“Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.”

— Samuel Johnson

“To know is to know that you know nothing; that is the meaning of true knowledge.”

— Socrates

“A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master gardener of his soul, the director of his life.”

— James Allen

“I have great respect for the semicolon; it is a mighty handy little fellow.”

— Abraham Lincoln

“His answer trickled through my head like water through a sieve.”

— Lewis Carroll

“There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island.”

— Walt Disney

“Faith is the highest passion in a human being; many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.”

— Soren Kierkegaard

“I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.”

— Groucho Marx

“Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

“I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

“A word to the wise is enough.”

— Plautus

“I think the teaching profession contributes more to the future of our society than any other single profession.”

— John Wooden

“Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.”

— Carl von Clausewitz

“Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.”

— James Stephens

“Education is not only a ladder of opportunity, but it is also an investment in our future.”

— Ed Markey

“The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.”

— Edith Wharton

“To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.”

— Marilyn vos Savant

“Wisdom sails with wind and time.”

— John Florio

“The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.”

— Wallace Stevens

“The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

“Leisure is the mother of philosophy.”

— Thomas Hobbes

“Everything great in the world comes from neurotics; they alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.”

— Marcel Proust

“I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.”

— George Washington Carver

“Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.”

— G.K. Chesterton

“Talent hits a target no one else can hit; genius hits a target no one else can see.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.”

— M. Scott Peck

“No enemy is worse than bad advice.”

— Sophocles

“When your values are clear to you, making decisions becomes easier.”

— Roy E. Disney

“Imagination is more important than knowledge.”

— Albert Einstein

“To have another language is to possess a second soul.”

— Charlemagne

“Whatever is received is received according to the nature of the recipient.”

— Thomas Aquinas

“To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.”

— Anatole France

“We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realise that we are apes.”

— Richard Dawkins

“Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it and wiser than the one that comes after it.”

— George Orwell

“The text is a limited field of possible constructions.”

— Paul Ricoeur

“Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.”

— G. K. Chesterton

“Education is neither Eastern nor Western; it is human.”

— Malala Yousafzai

“When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.”

— Samuel Johnson

“Man is an animal that makes bargains; no other animal does this. No dog exchanges bones with another.”

— Adam Smith

“It is not enough to do your best; you must know what to do and then do your best.”

— W. Edwards Deming

“In books lies the soul of the whole past time.”

— Thomas Carlyle

“The world is the totality of facts, not of things.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.”

— Mark Twain

“I know only two tunes: one of them is 'Yankee Doodle' and the other isn't.”

— Ulysses S. Grant

“Wisdom begins in wonder.”

— Socrates

“Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

“Before God we are all equally wise and equally foolish.”

— Albert Einstein

“Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it's really how it works.”

— Steve Jobs

“He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that.”

— John Stuart Mill

“We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.”

— Carl Sagan

“Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.”

— Pericles

“The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.”

— Bertrand Russell

“Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.”

— Søren Kierkegaard

“Geologists have a saying: 'Rocks remember.'”

— Neil Armstrong

“All music is folk music; I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.”

— Louis Armstrong

“The chief enemy of creativity is good sense.”

— Pablo Picasso

“It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

“Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.”

— Marcel Proust

“Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.”

— John N. Mitchell

“When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.”

— Ernest Hemingway

“It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.”

— G.K. Chesterton

“Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us.”

— Oscar Wilde

“I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.”

— Patrick Henry

“Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.”

— Confucius

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events; because by herself she is nothing, and is ruled by prudence.”

— John Dryden

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”

— Arthur C. Clarke

“Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.”

— Kofi Annan

“When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.”

— Mark Twain

“There is no great genius without some touch of madness.”

— Aristotle

“There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves.”

— Richard Rorty

“Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.”

— Agatha Christie

“Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“We schoolmasters must temper discretion with deceit.”

— Evelyn Waugh

“It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”

— William Shakespeare

“Everything has been figured out, except how to live.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“Having knowledge but lacking the power to express it clearly is no better than never having any ideas at all.”

— Pericles

“Being black is not a matter of pigmentation; being black is a reflection of a mental attitude.”

— Steven Biko

“Whatever is received is received according to the nature of the recipient.”

— Thomas Aquinas

“To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.”

— Plutarch

“Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Inclusive good quality education is a foundation for dynamic and equitable societies.”

— Desmond Tutu

“Is education possibly a process of trading awareness for things of lesser worth? The goose who trades his is soon a pile of feathers.”

— Aldo Leopold

“Cunning is but the low mimic of wisdom.”

— Plato

“Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic universal aims of humanity.”

— Leo Tolstoy

“Science is organized knowledge; wisdom is organized life.”

— Immanuel Kant

“The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.”

— Henry Kissinger

“He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible.”

— James Joyce

“Your body hears everything your mind says.”

— Naomi Judd

“Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“I am my own muse, the subject I know best.”

— Frida Kahlo

“Look within; within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up if thou wilt ever dig.”

— Marcus Aurelius

“Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.”

— Confucius

“Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.”

— Douglas Bader

“Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.”

— Henry David Thoreau

“Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose, a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.”

— Mary Shelley

“Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect, and passion in their operation.”

— John Ruskin

“Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.”

— Malcolm X

“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”

— Socrates

“Happy the man who has been able to learn the causes of things.”

— Virgil

“If you find the mirror of the heart dull, the rust has not been cleared from its face.”

— Rumi

“People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.”

— Blaise Pascal

“Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.”

— Peter Drucker

“You can't do it unless you can imagine it.”

— George Lucas

“A home without books is a body without a soul.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.”

— P.J. O'Rourke

“We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.”

— Diogenes

“The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd is the square root of the number of people in it.”

— Terry Pratchett

“Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

“Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.”

— Juvenal

“Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is.”

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Education is the best provision for old age.”

— Aristotle

“The value of an idea lies in the using of it.”

— Thomas A. Edison

“Not always what you know, but always know what you say.”

— Claudius

“Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.”

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“Never will the doctrine of spontaneous generation recover from the mortal blow struck by this simple experiment.”

— Louis Pasteur

“Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.”

— John Locke

“Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power.”

— Joan Didion

“Only great minds can afford a simple style.”

— Stendhal

“Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.”

— Soren Kierkegaard

“Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh, and the greatness which does not bow before children.”

— Khalil Gibran

“Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.”

— G.K. Chesterton

“The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.”

— Winston Churchill

“As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.”

— Andrew Carnegie

“Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.”

— George Eliot

“The best prophet of the future is the past.”

— George Byron

“It is an hypothesis that the sun will rise tomorrow, and this means that we do not know whether it will rise.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“Look and you will find it; what is unsought will go undetected.”

— Sophocles

“Better to write for yourself and have no public than to write for the public and have no self.”

— Cyril Connolly

“I would rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent than in the extent of my powers and dominion.”

— Alexander the Great

“What we think, we become.”

— Buddha

“Never be so brief as to become obscure.”

— Hosea Ballou

“There is nothing new, except what has been forgotten.”

— Marie Antoinette

“A scout is never taken by surprise; he knows exactly what to do when anything unexpected happens.”

— Robert Baden-Powell

“The whole art of war consists of guessing at what is on the other side of the hill.”

— Arthur Wellesley

“No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.”

— Albert Einstein

“A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.”

— Plato

“The reward of suffering is experience.”

— Harry S. Truman

“Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.”

— Simone Weil

“Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.”

— George Washington

“Science is the captain and practice the soldiers.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

“His answer trickled through my head like water through a sieve.”

— Lewis Carroll

“Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.”

— Saint Augustine

“Never make predictions, especially about the future.”

— Casey Stengel

“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”

— C.S. Lewis

“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.”

— Abraham Lincoln

“Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

“The intelligence of few perceives what has been carefully hidden in the recesses of the mind.”

— Phaedrus

“True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.”

— Socrates

“No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.”

— Voltaire

“Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking.”

— Black Elk

“The well-bred contradict other people; the wise contradict themselves.”

— Oscar Wilde

“No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.”

— John Locke

“I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.”

— Patrick Henry

“What lies behind you and what lies in front of you pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The smaller the mind, the greater the conceit.”

— Aesop

“If you don't know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.”

— Henry Kissinger

“Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.”

— Henry Van Dyke

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

— Thomas Jefferson

“I'm not a tech guy. I'm looking at the technology with the eyes of my customers, normal people's eyes.”

— Jack Ma

“Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so I can have a word with him?”

— Zhuangzi

“Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.”

— Samuel Johnson

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

— Hippocrates

“Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.”

— George S. Patton

“I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.”

— Mark Twain

“A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.”

— William Blake

“If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.”

— Lewis Carroll

“The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.”

— Charles Darwin

“Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.”

— Peter Drucker

“The possession of anything begins in the mind.”

— Bruce Lee

“All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.”

— Oscar Wilde

“It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle!”

— Lewis Carroll

“A musician who wrote music which is better than it sounds.”

— Richard Wagner

“No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.”

— Thomas Carlyle

“My masters are strange folk with very little care for music in them.”

— Johann Sebastian Bach

“There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.”

— Isaac Asimov

“I shut my eyes in order to see.”

— Paul Gauguin

“To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.”

— Nicolaus Copernicus

“There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.”

— Charles Dickens

“The fool wonders, the wise man asks.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

“We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“Amazing that the human race has taken enough time out from thinking about food or sex to create the arts and sciences.”

— Mason Cooley

“Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.”

— Francis Bacon

“The environment is everything that isn't me.”

— Albert Einstein

“However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act upon them?”

— Buddha

“No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.”

— Thomas Carlyle

“Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.”

— Oscar Wilde

“We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.”

— H.P. Lovecraft

“There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.”

— G.K. Chesterton

“I want education for the sons and the daughters of all the extremists, especially the Taliban.”

— Malala Yousafzai

“The best doctor is the one you run to and can't find.”

— Denis Diderot

“We are the representatives of the cosmos; we are an example of what hydrogen atoms can do given 15 billion years of cosmic evolution.”

— Carl Sagan

“Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.”

— Dalai Lama

“Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.”

— Bruce Lee

“Stupidity is not a handicap.”

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“Genius without education is like silver in the mine.”

— Benjamin Franklin

“We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.”

— Bertrand Russell

“Trust yourself, then you will know how to live.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Know first who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.”

— Epictetus

“A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.”

— Charles Dickens

“We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.”

— Thomas A. Edison

“Those who cannot understand how to put their thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of debate.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is; a sense of humor to console him for what he is not.”

— Francis Bacon

“Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.”

— Voltaire

“A picture is worth a thousand words.”

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.”

— Hilaire Belloc

“Study the past if you would divine the future.”

— Confucius

“Man is the religious animal. He is the only one that's got true religion. Several of them.”

— Hal Holbrook

“To read too many books is harmful.”

— Mao Zedong

“Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.”

— Carl Sagan

“When in doubt, go to the library.”

— Ron Weasley

“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.”

— Warren Buffett

“No poems can please for long or live that are written by water drinkers.”

— Horace

“That brain of mine is something more than merely mortal, as time will show.”

— Ada Lovelace

“Some folks are wise, and some are otherwise.”

— Tobias Smollett

“People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.”

— Isaac Asimov

“Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure science.”

— Edwin Powell Hubble

“There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.”

— Isaac Asimov

“A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.”

— Michelangelo

“He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years.”

— Thomas Carlyle

“Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

“God in His wisdom has decided that He will reward no works but His own.”

— Johannes Tauler

“I don't have to have faith; I have experience.”

— Joseph Campbell

“The sense of smell, like a faithful counsellor, foretells its character.”

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

“Until we get equality in education, we won't have an equal society.”

— Sonia Sotomayor

“A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them fortune.”

— Richard Whately

“Force has no place where there is need of skill.”

— Herodotus

“Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.”

— Oscar Wilde

“If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know.”

— Louis Armstrong

“Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith.”

— Paul Tillich

“A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car, but if he has a university education he may steal the whole railroad.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

“Curiosity is the lust of the mind.”

— Thomas Hobbes

“It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.”

— Lewis Carroll

“Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.”

— Edith Wharton

“He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher, or as his wife would have it, an idiot.”

— Douglas Adams

“It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.”

— John Steinbeck

“Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

“It is a wise man who knows where courage ends and stupidity begins.”

— Jerome Cady

“The propensity to truck, barter, and exchange one thing for another is common to all men and to be found in no other race of animals.”

— Adam Smith

“Thought is the parent of the deed.”

— Thomas Carlyle

“Language most shows a man; speak that I may see thee.”

— Ben Jonson

“A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us.”

— Franz Kafka

“A man travels the world in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.”

— George Edward Moore

“Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.”

— Zora Neale Hurston

“To see a world in a grain of sand, And heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour.”

— William Blake

“A good composer does not imitate, he steals.”

— Igor Stravinsky

“Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Science is simply common sense at its best; that is rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.”

— Thomas Huxley

“Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot; others transform a yellow spot into the sun.”

— Pablo Picasso

“We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.”

— Albert Einstein

“Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language; while in fact, language remains the master of man.”

— Martin Heidegger

“Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger.”

— Saint Basil

“Everything you can imagine is real.”

— Pablo Picasso

“Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

“God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.”

— Reinhold Niebuhr

“It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.”

— George Eliot

“I gravitate towards gravitas.”

— Morgan Freeman

“The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning, while those other subjects merely require scholarship.”

— Robert A. Heinlein

“The more I see, the less I know for sure.”

— John Lennon

“I have great faith in fools; self-confidence, my friends call it.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

“The African is my brother, but he is my younger brother by several centuries.”

— Albert Schweitzer

“Many people would sooner die than think. In fact, they do so.”

— Bertrand Russell

“Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.”

— Plato

“The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away than what it leaves behind.”

— William Wordsworth

“You're a little scary sometimes, brilliant but scary.”

— Ron Weasley

“The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible and those who do the improbable.”

— Oscar Wilde

“There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.”

— George Orwell

“Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

“The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.”

— Thales

“The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.”

— Confucius

“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.”

— Benjamin Franklin

“God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought; it's as simple as that.”

— Joseph Campbell

“It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.”

— Winston Churchill

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

— Thomas Sowell

“The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing; to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.”

— John Keats

“The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.”

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“Treat your password like your toothbrush: Don't let anybody else use it and get a new one every six months.”

— Clifford Stoll

“Much have I traveled in the realms of gold, and many goodly states and kingdoms seen.”

— John Keats

“A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit.”

— John Milton

“Only the ideas that we really live have any value.”

— Hermann Hesse

“The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.”

— Richard Cecil

“Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.”

— Les Brown

“Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.”

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“The doctors x-rayed my head and found nothing.”

— Dizzy Dean

“If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?”

— Scott Adams

“We stumble and fall constantly, even when we are most enlightened; but when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen.”

— Thomas Merton

“Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.”

— Henry Ford

“Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.”

— Groucho Marx

“Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.”

— Oscar Wilde

“Night is the mother of thoughts.”

— John Florio

“An American monkey after getting drunk on brandy would never touch it again; and thus is much wiser than most men.”

— Charles Darwin

“Only the hand that erases can write the true thing.”

— Meister Eckhart

“Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.”

— Albert Einstein

“The only source of knowledge is experience.”

— Albert Einstein

“The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.”

— Jacob Bronowski

“If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.”

— Henry Ford

“I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.”

— Oscar Wilde

“Logic is not a body of doctrine, but a mirror-image of the world; logic is transcendental.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.”

— Hippocrates

“The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.”

— William James

“Courage is knowing what not to fear.”

— Plato

“Wonder is the desire for knowledge.”

— Thomas Aquinas

“Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.”

— Will Durant

“Humor is an affirmation of dignity; a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.”

— Romain Gary

“This age thinks better of a gilded fool than of a threadbare saint in Wisdom's school.”

— Thomas Dekker

“They that know no evil will suspect none.”

— Ben Jonson

“Science is not only a disciple of reason, but also one of romance and passion.”

— Stephen Hawking

“You can observe a lot by just watching.”

— Yogi Berra

“Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard.”

— Anne Spencer

“Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.”

— Mark Twain

“Of all those arts in which the wise excel, nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.”

— André Breton

“Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.”

— e.e. cummings

“Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.”

— e.e. cummings

“Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.”

— Abraham Lincoln

“A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.”

— Francis Bacon

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”

— Aristotle

“The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality; and even then, not all the time.”

— George Orwell

“Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”

— Carl Jung

“Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality.”

— Alexis Carrel

“If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.”

— George S. Patton

“The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.”

— Aldous Huxley

“The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.”

— Molière

“Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.”

— Immanuel Kant

“Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.”

— Thomas Jefferson

“My soul has grown deep like the rivers.”

— Langston Hughes

“Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.”

— Edward de Bono

“We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.”

— Buddha

“Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

“In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.”

— Laurence Sterne

“I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station through which God speaks to us every hour if we will only tune in.”

— George Washington Carver

“The less men think, the more they talk.”

— Charles de Montesquieu

“We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.”

— Jane Austen

“You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man's actions are, such must be his spirit.”

— Demosthenes

“The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less.”

— Vaclav Havel

“Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.”

— Saint Augustine

“The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.”

— Sigmund Freud

“Ignorance is not innocence but sin.”

— Robert Browning

“Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.”

— Harold Coffin

“I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.”

— Baruch Spinoza

“If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.”

— Derek Bok

“Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”

— Carl Jung

“Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.”

— C.S. Lewis

“Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.”

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“Poetry: The best words in the best order.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.”

— Saint Augustine

“Reason, observation, and experience—the holy trinity of science.”

— Robert Green Ingersoll

“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”

— Thomas Merton

“The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.”

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Tis education forms the common mind, just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.”

— Alexander Pope

“The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.”

— Baruch Spinoza

“Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing.”

— Stephen Hawking

“The fatal tendency of mankind to leave off thinking about a thing when it is no longer doubtful is the cause of half their errors.”

— John Stuart Mill

“Thinking is the talking of the soul with itself.”

— Plato

“Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.”

— Jimi Hendrix

“If you think you have it tough, read history books.”

— Bill Maher

“Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.”

— Plato

“It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.”

— Lewis Carroll

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

— William Shakespeare

“To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.”

— Edmund Burke

“The key to wisdom is this: constant and frequent questioning; for by doubting we are led to question, and by questioning we arrive at the truth.”

— Peter Abelard

“I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.”

— Oscar Wilde

“Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.”

— Dale Carnegie

“Much learning does not teach understanding.”

— Heraclitus

“Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.”

— George Orwell

“Imagination decides everything.”

— Blaise Pascal

“Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.”

— Margaret Thatcher

“Women: they are a complete mystery.”

— Stephen Hawking

“Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.”

— Mahalia Jackson

“Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.”

— Robert H. Schuller

“The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.”

— Herodotus

“Without words, without writing, and without books, there would be no history; there could be no concept of humanity.”

— Hermann Hesse

“I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them.”

— Baruch Spinoza

“Ignorance is never better than knowledge.”

— Enrico Fermi

“To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.”

— Bertrand Russell

“The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.”

— Frank Herbert

“Know yourself to improve yourself.”

— Auguste Comte

“Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.”

— John Keats

“Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.”

— William Penn

“Every good painter paints what he is.”

— Jackson Pollock

“Education has for its object the formation of character.”

— Herbert Spencer

“Give us the child for eight years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.”

— Vladimir Lenin

“All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.”

— Aristotle

“No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.”

— Nelson Mandela

“I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.”

— Galileo Galilei

“Knowledge and human power are synonymous.”

— Francis Bacon

“To hate, to love, to think, to feel, to see; all this is nothing but to perceive.”

— David Hume

“Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.”

— Alan Turing

“Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength.”

— Corrie ten Boom

“The wise does at once what the fool does at last.”

— Baltasar Gracian

“Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.”

— Plato

“Knowledge is power.”

— Francis Bacon

“History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.”

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“The poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of soul is impossible.”

— Michel de Montaigne

“It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.”

— Epictetus

“If a lion could talk, we could not understand him.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.”

— Tony Robbins

“We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.”

— Marcel Proust

“Art does not reproduce what we see; rather, it makes us see.”

— Paul Klee

“Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel.”

— Ovid

“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex. It takes a touch of genius and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.”

— E. F. Schumacher

“Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.”

— Gottfried Leibniz

“Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.”

— Dag Hammarskjöld

“Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.”

— Alfred North Whitehead

“To have great poets, there must be great audiences.”

— Walt Whitman

“The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.”

— Epictetus

“Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.”

— Mark Twain

“Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.”

— Albert Einstein

“Whence come I and whither go I? That is the great unfathomable question, the same for every one of us. Science has no answer to it.”

— Max Planck

“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex. It takes a touch of genius and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.”

— E. F. Schumacher

“The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.”

— Henry Ford

“If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.”

— Abraham Maslow

“I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.”

— Igor Stravinsky

“It is not every question that deserves an answer.”

— Publilius Syrus

“Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools, he is nothing; with tools, he is all.”

— Thomas Carlyle

“Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.”

— Lauren Bacall

“A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.”

— Francis Bacon

“Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist.”

— Thomas Carlyle

“I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.”

— Walt Disney

“You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure.”

— Margaret Thatcher

“With stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain.”

— Friedrich Schiller

“If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time insight into and understanding of many things.”

— Vincent Van Gogh

“A feeble body weakens the mind.”

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.”

— Logan P. Smith

“Emotions have taught mankind to reason.”

— Luc de Clapiers

“Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered, either by themselves or by others.”

— Mark Twain

“The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.”

— Galileo Galilei

“If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.”

— Omar N. Bradley

“Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.”

— Blaise Pascal

“The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.”

— John D. Rockefeller

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

— Alexander Pope

“We are all now connected by the Internet like neurons in a giant brain.”

— Stephen Hawking

“He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

“I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.”

— Plato

“Faith keeps many doubts in her pay; if I could not doubt, I should not believe.”

— Henry David Thoreau

“The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“Research is creating new knowledge.”

— Neil Armstrong

“All the fossils that we have ever found have always been found in the appropriate place in the time sequence; there are no fossils in the wrong place.”

— Richard Dawkins

“It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.”

— René Descartes

“Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.”

— Plato

“It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.”

— Mark Twain

“To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.”

— Lao Tzu

“A mind lively and at ease can do with seeing nothing and can see nothing that does not answer.”

— Jane Austen

“I am not young enough to know everything.”

— Oscar Wilde

“People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.”

— Epictetus

“I never guess. It is a shocking habit—destructive to the logical faculty.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“The colored folks been singing it and playing it just like I'm doin' now, man, for more years than I know. I got it from them.”

— Elvis Presley

“What is your aim in philosophy? To show the fly the way out of the fly bottle.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“I feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore.”

— Georgia O'Keeffe

“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.”

— Albert Einstein

“See first, think later, then test. But always see first; otherwise you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that.”

— Douglas Adams

“He who is not just is severe; he who is not wise is sad.”

— Voltaire

“A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.”

— Franz Kafka

“There is no great genius without some touch of madness.”

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.”

— Plato

“I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.”

— Montesquieu

“To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit; a duck hears also.”

— Igor Stravinsky

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

— Hippocrates

“Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess.”

— Charles Dickens

“I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear. Knowing what must be done does away with fear.”

— Rosa Parks

“The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.”

— Confucius

“Beware that you do not lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.”

— Aesop

“The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.”

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

“The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.”

— Ralph W. Sockman

“The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.”

— Albert Einstein

“Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't insanity. Surrealism to me is reality.”

— John Lennon

“Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.”

— Malcolm Forbes

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

— Aristotle

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

— William James

“It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover.”

— Henri Poincaré

“I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”

— Lewis Carroll

“Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.”

— Khalil Gibran

“The only source of knowledge is experience.”

— Albert Einstein

“Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.”

— Benjamin Spock

“Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.”

— e.e. cummings

“For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics, or maps.”

— Christopher Columbus

“Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.”

— Samuel Butler

“What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.”

— Henry David Thoreau

“Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.”

— George Washington

“The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality; and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.”

— Samuel Johnson

“If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.”

— Albert Einstein

“Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.”

— T.S. Eliot

“Science is nothing but perception.”

— Plato

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

— Nelson Mandela

“It is wise to direct your anger towards problems, not people; to focus your energies on answers, not excuses.”

— William Arthur Ward

“Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

“The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.”

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.”

— Helen Keller

“Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.”

— Francis Bacon

“When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable.”

— Walt Disney

“The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.”

— Josh Billings

“Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. So aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.”

— Henry David Thoreau

“History is a guide to navigation in perilous times; history is who we are and why we are the way we are.”

— David McCullough

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

— Alexander Pope

“Conviction without experience makes for harshness.”

— Flannery O'Connor

“The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.”

— Rene Descartes

“It is said that the night brings counsel, but it is not said that the counsel is necessarily good.”

— Jules Verne

“Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.”

— Marie Curie

“One can not reflect in streaming water; only those who know internal peace can give it to others.”

— Lao Tzu

“Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.”

— Robert Green Ingersoll

“It is not living that matters, but living rightly.”

— Socrates

“The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on; it is never of any use to oneself.”

— Oscar Wilde

“A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.”

— George A. Moore

“Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.”

— Daniel J. Boorstin

“The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.”

— Helen Keller

“Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

“Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.”

— William Wordsworth

“Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism.”

— George Henry Lewes

“Man as an individual is a genius; but men in the mass form the headless monster, a great brutish idiot that goes where prodded.”

— Charlie Chaplin

“Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.”

— Daniel Bell

“Those who have knowledge don't predict; those who predict don't have knowledge.”

— Lao Tzu

“I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.”

— Bruce Lee

“Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself. Do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.”

— Bruce Lee

“The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.”

— Sigmund Freud

“They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.”

— Terry Pratchett

“Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.”

— Joseph Campbell

“By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out.”

— Richard Dawkins

“Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”

— John F. Kennedy

“The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight but has no vision.”

— Helen Keller

“An idea is salvation by imagination.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

“The man is either mad or he is making verses.”

— Horace

“The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations.”

— Adam Smith

“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.”

— Albert Einstein

“As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.”

— Plato

“Good artists copy, great artists steal.”

— Pablo Picasso

“Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.”

— Michel de Montaigne

“Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.”

— Albert Einstein

“Bid then the tender light of faith to shine, by which alone the mortal heart is led unto the thinking of the thought divine.”

— George Santayana

“If the fool would persist in his folly, he would become wise.”

— William Blake

“Reverie is not a mind vacuum; it is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.”

— Gaston Bachelard

“The ignorant mind, with its infinite afflictions, passions, and evils, is rooted in the three poisons: greed, anger, and delusion.”

— Bodhidharma

“There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.”

— Ronald Reagan

“It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst.”

— Desiderius Erasmus

“What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.”

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Aristotle

“Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.”

— Plato

“Our prayers should be for blessings in general; for God knows best what is good for us.”

— Socrates

“It's ok to have your eggs in one basket, as long as you control what happens to that basket.”

— Elon Musk

“We are faced with the paradoxical fact that education has become one of the chief obstacles to intelligence and freedom of thought.”

— Bertrand Russell

“Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness.”

— Aleister Crowley

“Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.”

— Henry David Thoreau

“Educate men without religion and you make of them but clever devils.”

— Arthur Wellesley

“A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years' mere study of books.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.”

— Bertrand Russell

“If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.”

— Hermann Hesse

“Television is chewing gum for the eyes.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

“Philosophy begins in wonder.”

— Plato

“There is only a finger's difference between a wise man and a fool.”

— Diogenes

“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”

— Oscar Wilde

“Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.”

— Felix Frankfurter

“Everything in food is science; the only subjective part is when you eat it.”

— Alton Brown

“He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.”

— Confucius

“One eye sees the other feels.”

— Paul Klee

“Simplicity is the key to brilliance.”

— Bruce Lee

“Chance favors the prepared mind.”

— Louis Pasteur

“Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.”

— John Adams

“An inner process stands in need of outward criteria.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“Towering genius disdains a beaten path; it seeks regions hitherto unexplored.”

— Abraham Lincoln

“You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave; discipline is an index to doctrine.”

— Tertullian

“Women are considered deep; why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.”

— Albert Einstein

“Medicine is the restoration of discordant elements; sickness is the discord of the elements infused into the living body.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

“Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”

— Lewis Carroll

“Humor must not professedly teach, and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.”

— Mark Twain

“The true art of memory is the art of attention.”

— Samuel Johnson

“Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.”

— George Washington

“Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.”

— Richard Wright

“A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.”

— William James

“If you can't read, it's going to be hard to realize dreams.”

— Booker T. Washington

“Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.”

— Aristotle

“Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.”

— Walter Benjamin

“Christianity has always embraced both reason and faith.”

— Dinesh D'Souza

“He who would search for pearls must dive below.”

— John Dryden

“The privilege of absurdity, to which no living creature is subject but man only.”

— Thomas Hobbes

“All men by nature desire to know.”

— Aristotle

“The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.”

— Francis Bacon

“Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.”

— Doug Larson

“In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.”

— Galileo Galilei

“As soon as man does not take his existence for granted but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins.”

— Albert Schweitzer

“My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. Fortunately, everybody drinks water.”

— Mark Twain

“Choose rather to be strong of soul than strong of body.”

— Pythagoras

“Everything in the world exists to end up in a book.”

— Hosea Ballou

“Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.”

— Charles Kettering

“Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.”

— Jacob Bronowski

“Not by age, but by capacity, is wisdom acquired.”

— Plautus

“Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age; sometimes age just shows up all by itself.”

— Tom Wilson

“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”

— John Locke

“No man was ever wise by chance.”

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“Lesser artists borrow; great artists steal.”

— Igor Stravinsky

“You affect the world by what you browse.”

— Tim Berners-Lee

“People who boast about their I.Q. are losers.”

— Stephen Hawking

“To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.”

— Aldous Huxley

“Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.”

— Lewis Carroll

“Let a fool hold his tongue, and he will pass for a sage.”

— Publilius Syrus

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

— Alexander the Great

“It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”

— William Shakespeare

“People only see what they are prepared to see.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

“If I had a choice of educating my daughters or my sons, because of opportunity constraints, I would choose to educate my daughters.”

— Brigham Young

“The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.”

— Sydney J. Harris

“Theories are always very thin and insubstantial; experience only is tangible.”

— Hosea Ballou

“Early childhood education is the key to the betterment of society.”

— Maria Montessori

“Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.”

— Ayn Rand

“The Christian of the future will be a mystic, or he will not exist at all.”

— Karl Rahner

“I am a part of everything that I have read.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

“Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you'll be able to see farther.”

— Thomas Carlyle

“The fox has many tricks, the hedgehog has but one; but that is the best of all.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.”

— H.L. Mencken

“In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat; but in the evolution of real knowledge, it marks the first step in progress toward a victory.”

— Alfred North Whitehead

“You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.”

— William Blake

“So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don’t even know that fire is hot.”

— George Orwell

“The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance; it is the illusion of knowledge.”

— Daniel J. Boorstin

“As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

“Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.”

— Alexander Pope

“The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.”

— Michel de Montaigne

“Everything has its limit - iron ore cannot be educated into gold.”

— Mark Twain

“Eyes and ears are poor witnesses to people if they have uncultured souls.”

— Heraclitus

“Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future.”

— Niels Bohr

“Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.”

— Edgar Cayce

“Think with your whole body.”

— Taisen Deshimaru

“Chess is the most elaborate waste of human intelligence outside of an advertising agency.”

— Raymond Chandler

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”

— Jane Austen

“Listen, real poetry doesn't say anything; it just ticks off the possibilities, opens all doors. You can walk through anyone that suits you.”

— Jim Morrison

“Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.”

— Francis Bacon

“Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see clearly.”

— John Ruskin

“Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.”

— Albert Einstein

“I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.”

— Aristotle

“Silence is true wisdom's best reply.”

— Euripides

“Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.”

— Thomas Jefferson

“Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.”

— Carlos Castaneda

“Once your IQ is 150 or over, it stops being ability and becomes a disability.”

— Walter O'Brien

“Humanity has the stars in its future and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.”

— Isaac Asimov

“Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.”

— Mao Zedong

“Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.”

— Lewis Carroll

“The kingdom of heaven is not a place but a state of mind.”

— John Burroughs

“Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.”

— Ludwig Borne

“Ignorance and superstition ever bear a close and mathematical relation to each other.”

— James Fenimore Cooper

“I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.”

— Socrates

“Thinking begins only when we have come to know that reason, glorified for centuries, is the stiff-necked adversary of thought.”

— Martin Heidegger

“Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.”

— Mitchell Kapor

“Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.”

— Thomas J. Watson

“To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.”

— Henry Kissinger

“That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer.”

— Jacob Bronowski

“The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.”

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.”

— Confucius

“You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.”

— Buddha

“The empty vessel makes the loudest sound.”

— William Shakespeare

“If we want our children to value education, then we must show our appreciation for knowledge.”

— Brad Sherman

“Everywhere I go, I find that a poet has been there before me.”

— Sigmund Freud

“The traveler sees what he sees; the tourist sees what he has come to see.”

— G.K. Chesterton

“Beware of the person of one book.”

— Thomas Aquinas

“More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.”

— Napoleon Hill

“Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.”

— William Cowper

“Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.”

— Samuel Johnson

“Fortune favors the prepared mind.”

— Louis Pasteur

“Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.”

— Khalil Gibran

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

— Socrates

“Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are.”

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

“In labouring to be concise, I become obscure.”

— Horace

“He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.”

— William Blake

“A good photograph is knowing where to stand.”

— Ansel Adams

“When the mind is thinking, it is talking to itself.”

— Plato

“Your talent is God's gift to you; what you do with it is your gift back to God.”

— Leo Buscaglia

“An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.”

— Ernest Hemingway

“A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.”

— Wayne Gretzky

“The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.”

— Voltaire

“The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.”

— Confucius

“In fact, nothing is said that has not been said before.”

— Terence

“Everything one invents is true; you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.”

— Gustave Flaubert

“What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.”

— Oscar Wilde

“The unexamined life is not worth living.”

— Socrates

“We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.”

— Buddha

“It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile.”

— Sting

“To study history means submitting to chaos and nevertheless retaining faith in order and meaning.”

— Hermann Hesse

“Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art. It is the part the schools cannot recognize.”

— James Joyce

“Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.”

— Khalil Gibran

“Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear.”

— William Congreve

“People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.”

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.”

— Immanuel Kant

“I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way – things I had no words for.”

— Georgia O'Keeffe

“There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.”

— Ansel Adams

“True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united.”

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

“Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.”

— Aristotle

“Belief is the death of intelligence.”

— Robert Anton Wilson

“The most merciful thing in the world is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.”

— H.P. Lovecraft

“It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.”

— Henry David Thoreau

“The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.”

— Albert Einstein

“Turn your wounds into wisdom.”

— Oprah Winfrey

“You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience; you are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience.”

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.”

— Immanuel Kant

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

— Edgar Allan Poe

“No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.”

— Mary Wortley Montagu

“The intelligence of few perceives what has been carefully hidden in the recesses of the mind.”

— Phaedrus

“Read much, but not many books.”

— Gustave Flaubert

“Directions are instructions given to explain how; direction is a vision offered to explain why.”

— Simon Sinek

“The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.”

— Mark Twain

“The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.”

— Albert Einstein

“To understand a science, it is necessary to know its history.”

— Auguste Comte

“It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has.”

— Hippocrates

“Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.”

— G.K. Chesterton

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

— Isaac Asimov

“Pain makes man think; thought makes man wise; wisdom makes life endurable.”

— John Patrick

“If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.”

— Thomas Jefferson

“The more we study, the more we discover our ignorance.”

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason.”

— Publilius Syrus

“It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.”

— Albert Einstein

“A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.”

— Plato

“Art has the power to transform, to illuminate, to educate, inspire, and motivate.”

— Harvey Fierstein

“All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.”

— Carl Sagan

“You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself.”

— Swami Vivekananda

“To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

“The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.”

— John Maynard Keynes

“Anyone who lives within his means suffers from a lack of imagination.”

— Lionel Stander

“It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane.”

— George Orwell

“The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician.”

— Louis Armstrong

“Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“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.”

— Thomas Carlyle

“Silence is true wisdom's best reply.”

— Euripides

“I always pass on good advice; it is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.”

— Oscar Wilde

“Jealousy is a mental cancer.”

— B.C. Forbes

“The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.”

— Winston Churchill

“Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.”

— Albert Einstein

“And though thou hadst small Latin and less Greek.”

— Ben Jonson

“Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.”

— Ludwig Borne

“Wise and humane management of the patient is the best safeguard against infection.”

— Florence Nightingale

“To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

“Where is the life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?”

— T.S. Eliot

“Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.”

— Oscar Wilde

“He who knows others is wise; he who knows himself is enlightened.”

— Lao Tzu

“Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?”

— Voltaire

“It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.”

— Michelangelo

“When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception.”

— Émile Coué

“Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.”

— Michel de Montaigne

“Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.”

— Karl Marx

“To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.”

— Martin Luther

“History is philosophy teaching by example.”

— Thucydides

“Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.”

— Lewis Carroll

“If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a nonworking cat.”

— Douglas Adams

“Without knowledge, action is useless and knowledge without action is futile.”

— Abu Bakr

“What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.”

— Helen Keller

“Knowledge is true opinion.”

— Plato

“Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.”

— Plato

“Education is the movement from darkness to light.”

— Allan Bloom

“To understand is to perceive patterns.”

— Isaiah Berlin

“Measure your mind's height by the shade it casts.”

— Robert Browning

“A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.”

— David Hume

“Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.”

— Plato

“In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.”

— Marquis de Sade

“The shortest distance between two points is a straight line.”

— Archimedes

“Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything.”

— Xenophon

“A person who can write a long letter with ease cannot write ill.”

— Jane Austen

“It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.”

— Mark Twain

“Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.”

— Francis Bacon

“Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded in certain circles as a kind of hallmark of true science.”

— Aldous Huxley

“Jealousy is the fear of comparison.”

— Max Frisch

“Doubt grows with knowledge.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The function of sociology, as of every science, is to reveal that which is hidden.”

— Pierre Bourdieu

“He that loves reading has everything within his reach.”

— William Godwin

“Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.”

— Plato

“We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.”

— William Butler Yeats

“I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.”

— Montesquieu

“Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance wheel of the social machinery.”

— Horace Mann

“Only fools are positive.”

— Moe Howard

“The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.”

— William Osler

“Blinding ignorance does mislead us, O wretched mortals! Open your eyes.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”

— Maya Angelou

“Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.”

— H.G. Wells

“There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.”

— Harry S. Truman

“The secret of freedom lies in educating people; whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.”

— Maximilien Robespierre

“Of all acts of man, repentance is the most divine; the greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.”

— Thomas Carlyle

“Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.”

— Albert Einstein

“Reverie is the mother of wisdom.”

— Victor Hugo

“Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going.”

— Oliver Cromwell

“Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

“This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.”

— Saint Augustine

“The highest result of education is tolerance.”

— Helen Keller

“A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.”

— Mark Twain

“A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.”

— Groucho Marx

“Most people would sooner die than think. In fact, they do so.”

— Bertrand Russell

“I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.”

— Alexander the Great

“Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.”

— George Santayana

“Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.”

— David Hume

“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.”

— Ludwig van Beethoven

“The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.”

— Buddha

“All that I know most surely about morality and obligations I owe to football.”

— Albert Camus

“Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body; it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.”

— John F. Kennedy

“The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind is curiosity.”

— Edmund Burke

“The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

“Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.”

— George Orwell

“Childhood is the sleep of reason.”

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.”

— Franz Kafka

“The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best.”

— Paul Valéry

“Accessible design is good design.”

— Steve Ballmer

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

— James Madison

“We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.”

— Swami Vivekananda

“A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.”

— G.K. Chesterton

“Sports do not build character, they reveal it.”

— Heywood Broun

“The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.”

— Edward Teller

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

— Albert Einstein

“Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.”

— Stephen Hawking

“Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.”

— Plutarch

“Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.”

— Mark Twain

“You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.”

— Buddha

“The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of being.”

— Martin Heidegger

“To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.”

— Confucius

“We're blind to our blindness. We have very little idea of how little we know. We're not designed to know how little we know.”

— Daniel Kahneman

“I think it makes sense to believe in God, but exactly what decision in your life you make differently because of it, I don't know.”

— Bill Gates

“The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“Life is hard. It's harder if you're stupid.”

— John Wayne

“Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.”

— Noam Chomsky

“If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.”

— Margaret Fuller

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

— John Ruskin

“A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.”

— Plato

“To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.”

— Joseph Stalin

“The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician; therefore the physician must start from nature with an open mind.”

— Paracelsus

“The oldest, shortest words—yes and no—are those which require the most thought.”

— Pythagoras

“I know a lot of people think I'm dumb. Well, at least I ain't no educated fool.”

— Leon Spinks

“The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence.”

— Jean Baudrillard

“Lyricists play with words.”

— Paul McCartney

“All I have seen teaches me to trust the creator for all I have not seen.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Education is our only political safety. Outside of this ark, all is deluge.”

— Horace Mann

“Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers; six if one went to Harvard.”

— Edgar R. Fiedler

“Everyone gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.”

— Gertrude Stein

“Prayer is simply a two-way conversation between you and God.”

— Bill Graham

“Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?”

— T.S. Eliot

“The more you own, the more you know you don't own.”

— Aristotle Onassis

“Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.”

— Aristotle

“In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.”

— Ansel Adams

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

— Immanuel Kant

“Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?”

— Leonardo da Vinci

“A man is what he thinks about all day long.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.”

— Plato

“A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Educate and inform the whole mass of the people. They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.”

— Thomas Jefferson

“What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?”

— Immanuel Kant

“To see clearly is poetry, prophecy, and religion all in one.”

— John Ruskin

“Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.”

— Socrates

“Memory is the mother of all wisdom.”

— Aeschylus

“Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.”

— Louis Pasteur

“The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.”

— James Madison

“History is a vast early warning system.”

— Norman Cousins

“He who seeks does not find, but he who does not seek will be found.”

— Franz Kafka

“I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

“Little things please little minds.'”

— Ovid

“The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.”

— Thales

“If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is Nature's way.”

— Aristotle

“Our life is what our thoughts make it.”

— Marcus Aurelius

“We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn't want to meet.”

— Stephen Hawking

“I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.”

— Isaac Newton

“A philosophical problem has the form: 'I don't know my way about.'”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.”

— Alan Perlis

“Philosophy will clip an angel's wings.”

— John Keats

“The poet is the priest of the invisible.”

— Wallace Stevens

“Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.”

— Quintilian

“I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for; perfection is God's business.”

— Michael J. Fox

“If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid.”

— John Maynard Keynes

“Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

“Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.”

— Bertrand Russell

“An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.”

— Victor Hugo

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

— Vincent van Gogh

“The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.”

— Diogenes

“Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.”

— Confucius

“Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us; and the art of life is to get the message.”

— Malcolm Muggeridge

“All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.”

— John Stuart Mill

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

— Samuel Johnson

“Baseball is ninety percent mental; the other half is physical.”

— Yogi Berra

“Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.”

— Blaise Pascal

“The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.”

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

“The true genius shudders at incompleteness and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

“Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”

— George Santayana

“I don't believe society understands what happens when everything is available, knowable, and recorded by everyone all the time.”

— Eric Schmidt

“Good communication is just as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after.”

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessities of life.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

“Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.”

— Jim Rohn

“Science does not know its debt to imagination.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”

— Oscar Wilde

“All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.”

— Blaise Pascal

“The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.”

— John Locke

“Wisdom comes alone through suffering.”

— Aeschylus

“It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.”

— Isaac Asimov

“Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.”

— Gustave Flaubert

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

— Jim Rohn

“We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.”

— T.S. Eliot

“Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.”

— Voltaire

“The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Preaching is too much avail, but practice is far more effective; a godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the skeptic.”

— Hosea Ballou

“The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches, but to reveal to him his own.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

“We are what we believe we are.”

— C.S. Lewis

“In utter loneliness, a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.”

— John Steinbeck

“Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.”

— Adam Smith

“The only thing that makes sense is to strive for greater collective enlightenment.”

— Elon Musk

“A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.”

— Khalil Gibran

“Passion, you see, can be destroyed by a doctor. It cannot be created.”

— Peter Shaffer

“Such is the audacity of man that he hath learned to counterfeit nature; yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work.”

— Pliny the Elder

“Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.”

— Sophocles

“Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.”

— Albert Einstein

“Talent hits a target no one else can hit; genius hits a target no one else can see.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“You can observe a lot by watching.”

— Yogi Berra

“Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.”

— G.K. Chesterton

“Of all our possessions, wisdom alone is immortal.”

— Isocrates

“A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.”

— Emily Dickinson

“Eureka! I have found it!”

— Archimedes

“A well instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.”

— James Madison

“But words are things; and a small drop of ink, falling like dew upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.”

— Lord Byron

“For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.”

— Plato

“A physician without a knowledge of astrology has no right to call himself a physician.”

— Hippocrates

“A daughter of hope and fear explaining to ignorance the nature of the unknowable.”

— Ambrose Bierce

“The more you explain it, the more I don’t understand it.”

— Mark Twain

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

— Leonardo da Vinci

“Men of lofty genius, when they are doing the least work, are most active.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

“Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge.”

— Alfred North Whitehead

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

— Chanakya

“Genius is childhood recalled at will.”

— Charles Baudelaire

“In general, mankind since the improvement of cookery eats twice as much as nature requires.”

— Benjamin Franklin

“The great tragedy of science—the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.”

— Thomas Huxley

“The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Your battles inspired me; not the obvious material battles, but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.”

— James Joyce

“Follow your instincts; that's where true wisdom manifests itself.”

— Oprah Winfrey

“Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around.”

— Thomas A. Edison

“A book which people praise and don't read.”

— Mark Twain

“In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.”

— Lee Iacocca

“We should take care not to make the intellect our God; it has, of course, powerful muscles but no personality.”

— Albert Einstein

“Wise men make more opportunities than they find.”

— Francis Bacon

“To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.”

— Werner Heisenberg

“The learning and knowledge that we have is at the most but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.”

— Plato

“Be a philosopher; but, amid all your philosophy, be still a man.”

— David Hume

“Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so.”

— Galileo Galilei

“The habit of reading is the only enjoyment in which there is no alloy; it lasts when all other pleasures fade.”

— Anthony Trollope

“Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.”

— Voltaire

“Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

“Thoughts without content are empty; intuitions without concepts are blind.”

— Immanuel Kant

“The true university of these days is a collection of books.”

— Thomas Carlyle

“Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.”

— C. Wright Mills

“The power to question is the basis of all human progress.”

— Indira Gandhi

“The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.”

— Mark Twain

“What an elder sees sitting, the young can't see standing.”

— Gustave Flaubert

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

— Thomas Jefferson

“We may say most aptly that the Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves.”

— Ada Lovelace

“Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.”

— Henri Bergson

“The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.”

— Aristotle

“Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history; unfortunately, it might also be the last unless we learn how to avoid the risks.”

— Stephen Hawking

“The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'”

— Isaac Asimov

“Dreams are the touchstones of our character.”

— Henry David Thoreau

“An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.”

— Albert Camus

“We can't have full knowledge all at once; we must start by believing; then afterwards we may be led on to master the evidence for ourselves.”

— Thomas Aquinas

“True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.”

— Socrates

“Only the shallow know themselves.”

— Oscar Wilde

“I've never known any trouble that an hour's reading didn't assuage.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“Who would set a limit to the mind of man? Who would dare assert that we know all there is to be known?”

— Galileo Galilei

“Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”

— Lewis Carroll

“Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Television is chewing gum for the eyes.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

“Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to while we long to make music that will melt the stars.”

— Gustave Flaubert

“Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings; it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.”

— William Wordsworth

“No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.”

— Thomas Carlyle

“Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.”

— Noam Chomsky

“Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.”

— Elie Wiesel

“Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.”

— Winston Churchill

“Only two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the former.”

— Albert Einstein

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.”

— Marcel Proust

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— It seems that the page name provided is "#N/A

“If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.”

— Lewis Carroll

“We cannot command nature except by obeying her.”

— Francis Bacon

“Philosophy is common sense with big words.”

— James Madison

“Poetry is emotion put into measure; the emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.”

— Thomas Hardy

“All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called facts; they are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.”

— Thomas Hobbes

“Sorrow is knowledge. Those that know the most must mourn the deepest. The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.”

— Lord Byron

“Time is the wisest counselor of all.”

— Pericles

“Nothing happens quite by chance. It's a question of accretion of information and experience.”

— Jonas Salk

“The destiny of man is in his own soul.”

— Herodotus

“Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.”

— John Dryden

“Patience is the companion of wisdom.”

— Saint Augustine

“All science is either physics or stamp collecting.”

— Ernest Rutherford

“All one's inventions are true; you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.”

— Gustave Flaubert

“You don't write because you want to say something; you write because you have something to say.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“The energy of the mind is the essence of life.”

— Aristotle

“Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind.”

— Johannes Brahms

“Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I do not believe in pure idioms; I think there is naturally a desire for whoever speaks or writes to sign in an idiomatic, irreplaceable manner.”

— Jacques Derrida

“Information is the oxygen of the modern age; it seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire; it wafts across the electrified borders.”

— Ronald Reagan

“The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.”

— Herodotus

“The mind is everything. What you think you become.”

— Buddha

“Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.”

— Benjamin Franklin

“To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying 'Amen' to what the world tells you ought to prefer is to have kept your soul alive.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“Knowledge is love and light and vision.”

— Helen Keller

“The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny.'”

— Isaac Asimov

“Wonder, rather than doubt, is the root of all knowledge.”

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

“Dressing up is inevitably a substitute for good ideas. It is no coincidence that technically inept business types are known as suits.”

— Paul Graham

“A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.”

— Nelson Mandela

“The only thing that comes to a sleeping man is dreams.”

— Tupac Shakur

“Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.”

— Immanuel Kant

“Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.”

— Hannah Arendt

“Physicists are working on the Big Bang, and one day they may or may not solve it.”

— Richard Dawkins

“What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?”

— Tertullian

“If you don't give education to people, it is easy to manipulate them.”

— Pele

“I took a speed reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.”

— Woody Allen

“The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom, but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.”

— Khalil Gibran

“The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me; I doubt about everything, even my doubts.”

— Gustave Flaubert

“Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it.”

— Ernest Holmes

“The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts but of values.”

— William S. Burroughs

“Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.”

— Paul Valéry

“There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.”

— Aldous Huxley

“Knowing others is wisdom; knowing yourself is enlightenment.”

— Lao Tzu

“The unexamined life is not worth living.”

— Socrates

“Biology is the study of complicated things that have the appearance of having been designed with a purpose.”

— Richard Dawkins

“As you think, so shall you become.”

— Bruce Lee

“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.”

— Benjamin Franklin

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

— Bruce Lee

“Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”

— George Santayana

“The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.”

— Francis Bacon

“Sanity is madness put to good use.”

— George Santayana

“If youth knew; if age could.”

— Sigmund Freud

“You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.”

— Mark Twain

“Those things which I am saying now may be obscure, yet they will be made clearer in their proper place.”

— Nicolaus Copernicus

“The greater our knowledge increases, the more our ignorance unfolds.”

— John F. Kennedy

“Einstein explained his theory to me every day, and on my arrival, I was fully convinced that he understood it.”

— Chaim Weizmann

“If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?”

— Thomas Huxley

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”

— Aristotle

“The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.”

— William Blake

“What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.”

— Henry David Thoreau

“Intuition becomes increasingly valuable in the new information society precisely because there is so much data.”

— John Naisbitt

“Everyone who remembers his own education remembers teachers, not methods and techniques. The teacher is the heart of the educational system.”

— Sidney Hook

“Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.”

— Isaac Asimov

“The reward of suffering is experience.”

— Harry S. Truman

“Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf and take an insect view of its plain.”

— Henry David Thoreau

“Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.”

— Harold Coffin

“Think like a wise man, but communicate in the language of the people.”

— William Butler Yeats

“One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.”

— George Herbert

“What we see depends mainly on what we look for.”

— John Lubbock

“I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear. Knowing what must be done does away with fear.”

— Rosa Parks

“If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.”

— Isaac Newton

“It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how nature is. Physics concerns what we say about nature.”

— Niels Bohr

“Consider your origins; you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.”

— Dante Alighieri

“Above the cloud, with its shadow is the star, with its light above all things: reverence thyself.”

— Pythagoras

“Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

“Science is the knowledge of consequences and dependence of one fact upon another.”

— Thomas Hobbes

“Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.”

— David Starr Jordan

“I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.”

— Mark Twain

“I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.”

— Isaac Asimov

“The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.”

— Voltaire

“Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.”

— Benjamin Franklin

“It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom; it is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

“In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.”

— John Muir

“Language is the dress of thought.”

— Samuel Johnson

“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.”

— John Milton

“If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.”

— Plato

“A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.”

— Nelson Mandela

“Build a man a fire and he'll be warm for a day; set a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.”

— Terry Pratchett

“Humor is reason gone mad.”

— Groucho Marx

“Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.”

— Edmund Burke

“Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.”

— Robert Kennedy

“What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?”

— Gertrude Stein

“A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.”

— Francis Bacon

“In all my perplexities and distresses, the Bible has never failed to give me light and strength.”

— Robert E. Lee

“You always admire what you really don't understand.”

— Blaise Pascal

“The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything.”

— Oscar Wilde

“Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

“People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors.”

— Edmund Burke

“All wrongdoing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed, can wrongdoing remain?”

— Buddha

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

— Nelson Mandela

“Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise.”

— Rumi

“Stupidity is infinitely more fascinating than intelligence. Intelligence has its limits while stupidity has none.”

— Claude Chabrol

“Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.”

— Sophocles

“You will recognize your own path when you come upon it because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need.”

— Jerry Gillies

“Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.”

— Thomas Huxley

“Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.”

— Horace

“He who knows does not speak; he who speaks does not know.”

— Lao Tzu

“In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words; and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.”

— Winston Churchill

“Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.”

— Aristophanes

“Whether you think that you can or that you can't, you are usually right.”

— Henry Ford

“History is a race between education and catastrophe.”

— H.G. Wells

“There are three classes of men: lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.”

— Plato

“Mystery creates wonder, and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.”

— Neil Armstrong

“Humor is just another defense against the universe.”

— Mel Brooks

“Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.”

— Thomas Paine

“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.”

— Edith Wharton

“Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.”

— Oscar Wilde

“The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.”

— Bertrand Russell

“Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.”

— Khalil Gibran

“Sixty years ago I knew everything; now I know nothing. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.”

— Will Durant

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

— Albert Einstein

“The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.”

— B.F. Skinner

“From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other; but when books are opened, you discover that you have wings.”

— Helen Hayes

“I sometimes think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.”

— Oscar Wilde

“In complete darkness we are all the same; it is only our knowledge and wisdom that separates us. Don't let your eyes deceive you.”

— Janet Jackson

“Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.”

— Marcel Proust

“Ideas shape the course of history.”

— John Maynard Keynes

“To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.”

— Oscar Wilde

“Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“My tastes are not those of the king, who has none except for hunting and mechanics' labour.”

— Marie Antoinette

“Common sense is not so common.”

— Voltaire

“Keep silence for the most part and speak only when you must, and then briefly.”

— Epictetus

“I'm a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.”

— Antonio Gramsci

“Curiosity is natural to the soul of man, and interesting objects have a powerful influence on our affections.”

— Daniel Boone

“Silence is the virtue of fools.”

— Francis Bacon

“You know what your problem is? It's that you haven't seen enough movies. All of life's riddles are answered in the movies.”

— Steve Martin

“There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.”

— Salvador Dali

“To speak and to speak well are two things; a fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.”

— Ben Jonson

“Sometimes what you're looking for is already there.”

— Aretha Franklin

“Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.”

— Leo Tolstoy

“Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.”

— Henry Ford

“I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.”

— Mark Twain

“Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world.”

— Mary Shelley

“Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.”

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.”

— Robert Frost

“Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.”

— Norman Cousins

“If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.”

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

“Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.”

— Steve Jobs

“He who opens a school door closes a prison.”

— Victor Hugo

“It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.”

— Michel de Montaigne

“The only disability in life is a bad attitude.”

— Scott Hamilton

“Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over, except when they are different.”

— Nancy Banks-Smith

“What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.”

— Bertrand Russell

“This world is a comedy to those that think; a tragedy to those that feel.”

— Horace Walpole

“A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.”

— Mark Twain

“The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.”

— John Locke

“Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.”

— George Orwell

“Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.”

— Winston Churchill

“Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company, and reflection must finish him.”

— John Locke

“A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.”

— G.K. Chesterton

“Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.”

— Marcus Aurelius

“Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.”

— Solon

“We are not final because we are infallible, but we are infallible only because we are final.”

— Robert Jackson

“All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.”

— Juvenal

“There are two great days in a person's life: the day we are born and the day we discover why.”

— William Barclay

“One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.”

— James Russell Lowell

“In science, there is only physics. All the rest is stamp collecting.”

— Lord Kelvin

“I do not seek, I find.”

— Pablo Picasso

“A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

“The greatest of faults I should say is to be conscious of none.”

— Thomas Carlyle

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

— Socrates

“Give light and people will find the way.”

— Ella Baker

“Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.”

— Albert Einstein

“No finite point has meaning without an infinite reference point.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.”

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

“I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.”

— Marie Curie

“The art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it.”

— Georg Cantor

“I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.”

— Henry David Thoreau

“Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.”

— Buddha

“The wise learn many things from their enemies.”

— Aristophanes

“Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.”

— Karl Popper

“But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous.”

— Edward Gibbon

“Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.”

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do; the bad news is that they do what you tell them to do.”

— Ted Nelson

“Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.”

— Oscar Wilde

“What is now proved was once only imagined.”

— William Blake

“Action is consolatory; it is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions.”

— Joseph Conrad

“Data is not information. Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not understanding. Understanding is not wisdom.”

— Clifford Stoll

“The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.”

— John Locke

“The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness; the theologian all the stupidity.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

“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.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

“If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts: but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.”

— Francis Bacon

“Words are but wind, and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.”

— Jonathan Swift

“It is the part of a fool to say, 'I should not have thought.'”

— Scipio Africanus

“I touch the future, I teach.”

— Christa McAuliffe

“True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.”

— Winston Churchill

“A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.”

— Marcus Garvey

“Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.”

— Albert Einstein

“I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy.”

— Ernest Hemingway

“Limited in his nature, infinite in his desire, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.”

— Alphonse de Lamartine

“The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt.”

— Henry George

“Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.”

— Hypatia

“I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.”

— Mark Twain

“No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.”

— Helen Keller

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

— James Madison

“He who does not know how to look back at where he came from will never get to his destination.”

— José Rizal

“The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself.”

— Thomas Carlyle

“Fear is the only true enemy, born of ignorance and the parent of anger and hate.”

— Edward Albert

“It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.”

— Abraham Lincoln

“These little grey cells. It is up to them.”

— Agatha Christie

“The intelligence of few perceives what has been carefully hidden in the recesses of the mind.”

— Phaedrus

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”

— Jorge Luis Borges

“If people never did silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“Where there is no imagination, there is no horror.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“Perceive that which cannot be seen with the eye.”

— Miyamoto Musashi

“The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation, rather than upon mere survival.”

— Aristotle

“However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?”

— Buddha

“A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.”

— Epictetus

“Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.”

— Elon Musk

“There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.”

— Frank Lloyd Wright

“Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.”

— Ludwig van Beethoven

“It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge that begins with experience.”

— Immanuel Kant

“Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.”

— Jonathan Swift

“It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.”

— Voltaire

“In nine lifetimes, you'll never know as much about your cat as your cat knows about you.”

— Michel de Montaigne

“Who is more foolish, the fool or the fool that follows it?”

— Alec Guinness

“Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.”

— Jackson Pollock

“Life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves.”

— Bill Hicks

“A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessities of life.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

“A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.”

— Friedrich Schiller

“There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire.”

— Jules Renard

“A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.”

— Benjamin Franklin

“Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.”

— Norman Douglas

“Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness.”

— Sacha Guitry

“Self-pity is our worst enemy, and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.”

— Helen Keller

“Design is everything; everything is design.”

— Paul Rand

“Nature and nature's laws lay hid in night; God said, 'Let Newton be!' and all was light.”

— Alexander Pope

“Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know.”

— Bertrand Russell

“I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments and demonstrations.”

— Galileo Galilei

“The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“He who conquers others is strong; he who conquers himself is mighty.”

— Lao Tzu

“If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is: infinite.”

— William Blake

“At a dinner party, one should eat wisely, but not too well, and talk well, but not too wisely.”

— W. Somerset Maugham

“Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.”

— Thomas Wolfe

“Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.”

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

“Wisdom is learning what to overlook.”

— William James

“The fabled musk deer searches the world over for the source of the scent which comes from itself.”

— Ramakrishna

“The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.”

— Unknown

“Imagination creates reality.”

— Richard Wagner

“Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.”

— Jawaharlal Nehru

“There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.”

— Bertrand Russell

“I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.”

— Jane Austen

“There are no dangerous thoughts. Thinking itself is dangerous.”

— Hannah Arendt

“Skeptical scrutiny is the means in both science and religion by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.”

— Carl Sagan

“It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.”

— Arthur Conan Doyle

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

— Abraham Lincoln

“Too often travel instead of broadening the mind merely lengthens the conversation.”

— Elizabeth Drew

“Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.”

— Will Durant

“Man is not the lord of beings; man is the shepherd of being.”

— Martin Heidegger

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