The way of success is the way of continuous pursuit of knowledge.
The ultimate basis on which all our knowledge and science rest is the inexplicable.
The thorns which I have reaped are of the tree I planted, – they have torn me, – and I bleed: I should have known what fruit would spring from such a seed.
The only thing we do not know is how to be ignorant of what we cannot know.[La seule chose que nous ne savons point, est d’ignorer ce que nous ne pouvons savoir.]
The only real science is the knowledge of how a person should live his life. And this knowledge is open to everyone.
The only fence against the world, is a thorough knowledge of it.
The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.
The man whom philosophy leaves cold, and the man whom real faith does not illuminate, may be assured that the fault lies in them, not in knowledge and faith. The former is still an alien to philosophy, the latter an alien to faith.
The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies, but also to hate his friends.
The limit of man’s knowledge in any subject possesses a high interest, which is perhaps increased by its close neighbourhood to the realms of imagination.
The history of knowledge is a great fugue in which the voices of the nations one after the other emerge.
The further knowledge advances, the nearer we come to the unfathomable: the more we know how to use our knowledge, the better we see that the unfathomable is of no practical use.
