The idea is to try to give all the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another.

The highest result of education is tolerance.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.

It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.

All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge.

Knowledge, Action, Devotion are complementary to each other.

The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.

I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places.

Many much-learned men have no intelligence.

Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.

A witty saying proves nothing.

Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.

I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length.

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly - they'll go through anything. You read and you?re pierced.

Action not backed by knowledge and knowledge not translatable into action, both can not stand the test of time.

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.