“What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.” Continue reading
Category Archives: Knowledge
Albert Einstein on Science
“The important thing is not to stop questioning.” Continue reading
Albert Einstein on Imagination
“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.” Continue reading
Samuel Johnson on Knowledge
“Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.” Continue reading
Thomas Fuller on Facts
“Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get them, get them right, or they will get you wrong.” Continue reading
Galileo Galilei on Ignorance
“I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.” Continue reading
Isaac Newton on Science
“I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light.” Continue reading
Charles Caleb Colton Cynical Quote
“If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.” Continue reading
Dwight D. Eisenhower on Intellectuals
“An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.” Continue reading
James Thurber on Questions
“It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.” Continue reading
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