“The simple mantra, ‘I know nothing’ has helped me so many times in the past seven years. I owe any success to those simple three words: I. Know. Nothing.”— James Altucher, thoughtcatalog.com
“Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else. Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.”— Hermann Hesse, amazon.com
“Science is fun. Science is curiosity. We all have natural curiosity. Science is a process of investigating. It’s posing questions and coming up with a method. It’s delving in.”— Sally Ride, articles.latimes.com
“You have your whole life ahead of you. Be smart. Study hard and be independent…You must rely on yourself. No matter what else people may steal from you, they will never be able to take away your knowledge. The world is changing. You must make your own life outside this home.”— Adeline Yen Mah, amazon.com
“Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and invigorated: by the other, virtue (which is the health of the mind) is kept alive, cherished, and confirmed.”— Joseph Addison, amazon.com
“It was neither possible nor necessary to educate people who never questioned anything.”— Joseph Heller, amazon.com
“With time, many of the facts I learned were forgotten but I never lost the excitement of discovery.”— Paul Berg, nobelprize.org
“Think of it this way: the more info that we get, the more options we get, the more knowledge we get, and the much higher chance of evolving to a level that perhaps would be unreachable any other way.”— Bobby Chiu, youtube.com
“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”— Rumi, amazon.com
“The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.”— Carl Sagan, amazon.com
“There is still a lot to learn and there is always great stuff out there. Even mistakes can be wonderful.”— Robin Williams, anothermag.com
“At fifteen you had the radiance of early morning, at twenty you will begin to have the melancholy brilliance of the moon.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com
“Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.”— Bertrand Russell, users.drew.edu
“The limits of my language are the limits of my mind. All I know is what I have words for.”— Ludwig Wittgenstein, amazon.com
“Opinion is really the lowest form of human knowledge. It requires no accountability, no understanding. The highest form of knowledge is empathy, for it requires us to suspend our egos and live in another’s world. It requires profound purpose larger than the self kind of understanding.”— Bill Bullard, web.archive.org
“Your entire universe is in your mind and nowhere else. To expand the universe, expand your mind.”— Deepak Chopra, goodreads.com