Collection of phrases and quotes about knowledge.
When I hear that a man has the habit of reading, I am inclined to think well of him.
Real intellectual exercise does not consist of following trends, but of facing the difficulties of one's own time.
To learn is to discover what you already know. To act is to demonstrate that you know it. To teach is to remind others that they know as much as you do. You are all learners, doers, teachers.
Science is the aesthetics of intelligence.
Some books are tasted, others swallowed, and only a few are chewed and digested.
There is nothing that does more harm to a nation than cunning people passing for intelligent.
I would like to live to study, not study to live.
The reading makes the man complete; the conversation, agile, and the writing, precise.