Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.

We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.

Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.

It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.

Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.

Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.