Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real knowledge, it marks the first step in progress toward victory.

Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance is the death of knowledge

Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination

In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory

Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.