Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge—broad, deep knowledge—is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low.
I must create a system or be enslaved by another man's. I will not reason and compare; my business is to create.
Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.
Knowledge is preferable to ignorance. Better by far to embrace the hard truth than a reassuring fable.
It is a curious thing, but as one travels the world getting older and older, one feels as if one is going in circles.
The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner.
It is generally recognised that women are better than men at languages, personal relations, and multi-tasking.
The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!
Aimless extension of knowledge, however, which is what I think you really mean by the term curiosity, is merely inefficiency.
