Children are messengers to us from a world we once deeply knew.
—Alice Miller
The worst thing you can do if you miss or need someone is let them know it.
—Sarah Dessen in Lock & Key
To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
—Quentin Crisp
Don't go wishing for what you know nothing about.
—Marthe Jocelyn in Folly
A room without books is like a body without a soul.
—Cicero
Modesty is a shining light; it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth.
—Madam Guizot
If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is not a barking dog, to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.
—Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
All men by nature desire knowledge.
—Benjamin Disraeli
If a man empties his purse into his head no one can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
—Bertrand Russell
When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it—this is knowledge.
—Edgar Allan Poe
Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.
—Enrico Fermi
None of us is as smart as all of us.
—Frank Herbert
We have an opportunity for everyone in the world to have access to all the world's information. This has never before been possible. Why is ubiquitous information so profound? It's a tremendous equalizer. Information is power.
—Isaac Asimov
We have come out of the time when obedience, the acceptance of discipline, intelligent courage, and resolution were most important, into that more difficult time when it is a man's duty to understand his world rather than to simply fight for it.
—J. K. Rowling
His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even… knowledge, was foolproof.
—Laozi