Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.
Knowledge, like air, is vital to life. Like air, no one should be denied it.
Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
There is no wealth like knowledge, no poverty like ignorance.
Ignorance is the absence of knowledge.
Stupidity is the presence of knowledge and the refusal to use it.
Knowledge is the food of the soul.
You can beat 40 scholars with one fact, but you can't beat one idiot with 40 facts.