Collection of phrases and quotes about knowledge.
Literature is a strange machine that devours, that absorbs all the pleasures, all the events of life. Writers are vampires.
The human mind is incapable of inventing new values, not even a new primary color.
The task of the modern educator is not to prune the forests, but to water the deserts.
The best defense against bad literature is a rich experience with good literature; just as to protect oneself from scoundrels, it is much more effective to truly associate with honest people than to distrust everyone as a matter of principle.
We will not consider any experience we may have, whatever it may be, as miraculous if we maintain a philosophy that excludes the supernatural.
Experience is a fierce teacher, but it's clear that it makes you learn.
At least once a year, everyone is a genius.
On education, I can only say that it is the most important issue in which we, as a nation, must get involved.
Where everyone thinks alike, no one thinks much.
You can't feed the hungry with statistics.
No human knowledge can go beyond its experience.
The notion that we acquire through the senses of external things, although not as certain as our intuitive knowledge, deserves the name of knowledge.