knowledge Quotes

I cannot live without books.

To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.

Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.

Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

To hold a pen is to be at war.