Collection of phrases and quotes about knowledge.
The mind is always right, while the appetite and imagination can be wrong.
There is nothing in the mind that has not been previously in the senses.
One should not always start with the very first notion of the things being studied, but rather with what can facilitate learning.
Every man, by nature, desires to know.
Sciences have bitter roots, but very sweet fruits.
When we are on the edge of an abyss and the night is dark, the wise rider loosens the reins and surrenders to the horse's instinct.
I want to know everything. And I always find myself as before, as sad as life and as resigned as wisdom.
When I was young, I almost always read to learn; today, sometimes, I read to forget.
If any man, even a vulgar one, knew how to narrate his own life, he would write one of the greatest novels ever written.
The education of women cannot be called education, but rather taming, since its ultimate goal is obedience, passivity, and submission.
If you do not act as you think, you will end up thinking as you act.
It is worth knowing something about everything, rather than knowing everything about one thing.