Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go but without the discipline of real life they remain of the nature of theory only.
One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge.
There are some people who want to throw their arms round you simply because...
Cut quarrels out of literature and you will have very little history or...
Knowledge is power only if man knows what facts not to bother with.
Nothing is so threatening to conventional values as a man who does not...
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is...
No thief, however skillful, can rob one of knowledge, and that is why...
