knowledge Quotes

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.

'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read.

Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.

Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.

Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?