Country Quote by Charles Babbage

“An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. Learning is to the Studious, and Riches to the Careful. If a man empties his…

— John C. Bogle

“nothing would be more fatal than for the Government of States to get in the hands of experts. Expert knowledge is limited knowledge, and…

— Winston Churchill

“The dilemma is this. In the modern world knowledge has been growing so fast and so enormously, in almost every field, that the probabilities…

— Henry Hazlitt

“An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. • Benjamin Franklin”

— Andrew Hunt

“There is nothing which can better deserve our patronage than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis…

— George Washington

“The mediocre can be educated; geniuses educate themselves.”

— Santiago Ramón y Cajal

“However, not only are fortunes equal in America, equality extends to some degree to intelligence itself. I do not think that there is a…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Education is very admirable but let us not forget that anything worth knowing cannot be taught.

— Oscar Wilde

No knowledge, however thorough and extensive, no brilliance and perspicuity, no dialectic sophistication, will preserve us from the commmonness of thought and will. It…

— Max Stirner

“The functions of the human frame are, broadly speaking, known. They are a country, anyhow, that has been charted and mapped out. But outside…

— E.F. Benson

An educated man should know everything about something, and something about everything.

— Anonymous

“The fatal conceit of intellectuals, he said, is to think that smart people can design an economy or a society better than the apparently…

— David Boaz