Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.
One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.
The analysis of concepts is for the understanding nothing more than what the magnifying glass is for sight.
People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.
It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.
The knowledge of God is the cause of things. For the knowledge of God is to all creatures what the knowledge of the artificer is to things made by his art.
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