knowledge Quotes

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.

Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we, as a people, can be engaged in.

A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.

I can express all my views on the slavery question by quotations from Henry Clay.

The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.

If I like a thing, it just sticks after once reading it or hearing it.

If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.