Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
Any fool can know. The point is to understand.
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You’d be surprised how far that gets you.
Knowing too much of your future is never a good thing.
Confidence is ignorance. If you’re feeling cocky, it’s because there’s something you don’t know.
No thief, however skillful, can rob one of knowledge, and that is why knowledge is the best and safest treasure to acquire.
I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.
Great minds are always feared by lesser minds.
The Seven Social Sins are: Wealth without work. Pleasure without conscience. Knowledge without character. Commerce without morality. Science without humanity. Worship without sacrifice. Politics without principle. From a sermon given by Frederick Lewis Donaldson in Westminster Abbey, London, on March 20, 1925.
I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think
A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.
Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won’t come in.
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