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Books are to be distinguished by the grandeur of their topics even more than by the manner in which they are treated.

If you desire information on some point of law, you are not likely to ponder over the ponderous tomes of legal writers in order to obtain the knowledge you seek, by your own unaided efforts.

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

You can’t study the darkness by flooding it with light.

The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.

There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge – that is everywhere.

I’ve always felt that a person’s intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.

Knowledge is true opinion.

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth.