It is absurd to hold that a man ought to be ashamed of being unable to defend himself with his limbs, but not of being unable to defend himself with speech and reason.
All men by nature desire knowledge.
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As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
No one can draw more out of things, books included, than he already knows. A man has no ears for that to which experience has given him no access.
One cannot conceive anything so strange and so implausible that it has not already been said by one philosopher or another.
The most crucial use of knowledge and education is to understand the importance of developing a good heart.
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.
Cherish that which is within you, and shut off that which is without; for much knowledge is a curse.
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
