knowledge Quotes

Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.

There is nothing we like to communicate to others as much as the seal of secrecy together with what lies under it.

Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.

The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

A critic should be taught to criticise a work of art without making any reference to the personality of the author.

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.