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Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.

To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand.

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

The most elementary and valuable statement in science, the beginning of wisdom, is that I do not know.

Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds.

Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.

I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

Words are but wind; and learning is nothing but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind.

I say there is no darkness but ignorance.