Knowledge

"Talent is like electricity. We don't understand electricity. We use it."

"Reading can take you places you have never been before."

"Each time you learn something new you must readjust the whole framework of your knowledge"

"A society in which such decisions can only be made by males has thrown away half of its knowledge, talents, and insights."

"It's never too late to gain knowledge and follow your goals."

"One of the best investments we can make in a child’s life is high-quality early education."

"I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led."

"I thought I was learning to live; I was only learning to die."

"It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge."

"Peace means solving these differences through peaceful means; through dialogue, education, knowledge; and through humane ways."

"Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge."

"Study the greats and become greater."

"Knowledge is the food of the soul."

"Foreknowledge cannot be gotten from ghosts and spirits, cannot be had by analogy, cannot be found out by calculation. It must be obtained from people, people who know the conditions of the enemy."

"If I'm not creating, I'm not as happy."

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

"Once you stop learning, you start dying."

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

"The knowledge of all things is possible."

"Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight."

"Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master."

"Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned."

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

"A man who knows how little he knows is well, a man who knows how much he knows is sick."