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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.

We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.

I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.

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.

I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.

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.