A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.
- Ben Franklin


All men by nature desire knowledge.
- Aristotle


All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.
- Abraham Lincoln


An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
- Ben Franklin


As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
- Socrates


Commonsense is the realized sense of proportion.
- Mahatma Gandhi


Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.
- Mahatma Gandhi


Ever notice how 'What the hell' is always the right answer?
- Marilyn Monroe


Experts often possess more data than judgment.
- Colin Powell


He who knows best knows how little he knows.
- Thomas Jefferson


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


I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there.
- Confucius


I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.
- Mark Twain


I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.
- Thomas Jefferson


I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know.
- Mark Twain


If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.
- Ben Franklin


If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.
- Abraham Lincoln


Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.
- Ronald Reagan


It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.
- Mark Twain


It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.
- Thomas Jefferson


Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
- Confucius


The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.
- Mark Twain


The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it.
- Mark Twain


The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.
- Socrates


The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.
- Henry Ford


There is no Final Resting Place of the Mind.
- Anthony Bourdain


Towering genius distains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.
- Abraham Lincoln


When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.
- Confucius


You don't know what you can get away with until you try.
- Colin Powell