"Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing." - Henri-Frédéric Amiel, Journal intime

"Knowledge is the conformity of the object and the intellect." - Averroës, Destructio Destructionum

"If a man will begin with certainties, he will end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he will end in certainties." - Francis Bacon

"I'm not smart, but I like to observe. Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why." - Bernard Mannes Baruch

"If thou would'st have that stream of hard-earn'd knowledge, of Wisdom heaven-born, remain sweet running waters, thou should'st not leave it to become a stagnant pond." - H. P. Blavatsky

"Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, their own ideas and other people's values." - Gerald Brenan, Thoughts in a Dry Season

"That there should one man die ignorant who had capacity for knowledge, this I call a tragedy." - Thomas Carlyle

"Imagination is more important than knowledge." - Albert Einstein, On Science

"Knowledge, the object of knowledge and the knower are the three factors which motivate action; the senses, the work and the doer comprise the threefold basis of action." - Bhagavad Gita

"Learning is its own exceeding great reward." - William Hazlitt

"Much learning does not teach understanding." - Heraclitus

"Of all men's miseries the bitterest is this: to know so much and to have control over nothing." - Herodotus

"All knowledge is of itself of some value. There is nothing so minute or inconsiderable, that I would not rather know it than not." - Dr. Samuel Johnson

"The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance." - Diogenes Laertius

"In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance." - Henry Miller

"Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms." - Wendell Phillips

"Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven." - William Shakespeare

"Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since." - ABIGAIL ADAMS, letter (1791)

"What one knows is, in youth, of little moment; they know enough who know how to learn." - HENRY ADAMS, The Education of Henry Adams

"If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?" - THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY, On Elemental Instruction in Physiology

"All knowledge is of itself of some value. There is nothing so minute or inconsiderable that I would not rather know it than not." - SAMUEL JOHNSON, quoted in James Boswell's The Life of Samuel Johnson

"The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it." - LAURENCE STERNE, Tristram Shandy

"If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties." - Bacon, Sir Francis

"There is a tragic clash between Truth and the world. Pure undistorted Truth burns up the world." - Berdyayev, Nikolay

"Spiritual maturity is a lifelong process of replacing lies with truth." - Bruner, Kurt D.

"Would I had phrases that are not known, utterances that are strange, in new language that has not been used, free from repetition, not an utterance which has grown stale, which men of old have spoken." - Egyptian Inscription

"In our age... men seem more than ever prone to confuse wisdom with knowledge, and knowledge with information, and to try to solve problems of life in terms of engineering." - Eliot, T. S.

"I hate quotations. Tell me what you know." - Emerson, Ralph Waldo

"Si jeunesse savait, si vieillesse pouvait. T: 'If youth but knew; if [old] age but could.'" - Estienne, Henri in 'Les Pr]mices' 1594

"We who came down from out of the forest seek to grow a forest of knowing among the stars." - Ferris, Timothy in 'The Mind's Sky: Human Intelligence in a Cosmic Context' 1992

"The best mirror is an old friend." - Herbert, George (1593-1633)

"Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach." - Koppel, Ted

"When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it--this is knowledge." - Kung Fu-tse [Confucius] (551-479 B.C.) in 'The Confucian Analects'

"He who knows does not speak. He who speaks does not know." - Lao-tse [Lao-tzu] (c604-c531 B.C.)

"He who knows others is wise; He who knows himself is enlightened." - Lao-tse [Lao-tzu] (c604-c531 B.C.)

"Universities are full of knowledge; the freshmen bring a little in and the seniors take none away, and knowledge accumulates." - Lowell, Abbott L. (1856-1943)

"Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know." - Maurois, Andr] (1885-1967)

"The gulf between knowledge and truth is infinite." - Miller, Henry

"Doubt is the key to knowledge." - Persian Proverb

"Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind." - Plato (c428-348 B.C.) in 'The Republic', book VII, 536-E

"An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out." - Rogers, Will[iam Penn Adair] (1879-1935)

"All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value." - Sagan, Carl (1934- )

"Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand." - Santayana, George (1863-1952)

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

"I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think." - Socrates

"One must spend time in gathering knowledge to give it out richly." - Steadman, Edward C.

"When an old person dies, a library is lost." - Swann, Tommy

"It is better to be ignorant then to believe in something untrue." - Unknown

"We all learn from our mistakes. The trick is learn from the mistakes of others." - Unknown

"Education is a an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught." - Wilde, Oscar (1854-1900) in 'Intentions'

"I am not young enough to know everything." - Wilde, Oscar (1854-1900)

"Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question." - Williams, Tennessee