As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.Arthur Schopenhauer
The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.Arthur Schopenhauer
The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.Arthur Schopenhauer
Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.Arthur Schopenhauer
Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.Arthur Schopenhauer
