All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.

All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.

Learning how to learn is life's most important skill.

Learning how to learn is life's most important skill.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.

There is no other Royal path which leads to geometry.

There is no other Royal path which leads to geometry.

If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out read more

If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.

The languages, especially the dead,
The sciences, and most of all the abstruse,
The arts, at least read more

The languages, especially the dead,
The sciences, and most of all the abstruse,
The arts, at least all such as could be said
To be the most remote from common use,
In all these he was much and deeply read.

There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books.

There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books.

The wind which snuffs the candle fans the fire.

The wind which snuffs the candle fans the fire.

The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.

The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.