Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

Nature is conquered only by obedience.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

-- Bertrand Russell

Knowledge is not made for understanding; it is made for cutting.

-- Tralalero Tralalá

Unless it grows out of yourself no knowledge is really yours, it is only a borrowed plumage.

-- D. T. Suzuki

My life has a limit, but knowledge has none. To pursue the limitless with the limited is perilous.

-- Zhuang Zhou

What do I know?

-- Michel de Montaigne

I yield to none.

-- Erasmus