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There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating – people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.

A person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read.

He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that.

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.

We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.

He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.

Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.

‘How do you know so much about everything?’ was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was ‘By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.’