Education and Knowledge

Those who do not read have no advantage over those who cannot read.

I was educated once - it took me years to get over it.

Belief is the wound that knowledge heals.

Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.

My works are the issue of simple and plain experience which is the true mistress.

Abbreviators do harm to knowledge and to love.

Just as food eaten without appetite is a tedious nourishment, so does study without zeal damage the memory by not assimilating what it absorbs.

I am not to blame for putting forward, in the course of my work on science, any general rule derived from a previous conclusion.

The knowledge of the past times and of the places of the earth is both an ornament and nutriment to the human mind.

It is a far worthier thing to read by the light of experience than to adorn oneself with the labors of others.

He who in reasoning cites authority is making use of his memory rather than of his intellect.

If we make mistakes in our first compositions and do not know them, we may not amend them.

True and great love springs out of great knowledge, and where you know little you can love but little or not at all.

You should prefer a good scientist without literary abilities than a literate one without scientific skills.

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.

Test knowledge through experience, be prepared to make mistakes, and be persistent about it.

Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.

The study of what is excellent is food for the mind and body.

Being engulfed in practice without delicate knowledge related to it, is in many ways like entering a ship without knowing where it is headed.

Those who, in debate, appeal to their qualifications, argue from memory, not from understanding.

The Book of the science of Mechanics must precede the Book of useful inventions.

First study the science, and then practice the art which is born of that science.

There is no higher or lower knowledge, but one only, flowing out of experimentation.

All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its mechanical part.