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We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.

He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.

Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.

‘How do you know so much about everything?’ was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was ‘By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.’

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

Man knows much more than he understands.