I was well-read but perhaps that only made me stupid.

There are too many years around this table, too much time confined in one place.

THE GAP: Closed-Mindedness can create it, Narrow-Mindedness can widen it, Open-Mindedness can close it, Like-Mindedness… Will Bridge It!

Availability of knowledge is only next to prevalence of stupidity in its overwhelming abundance.

If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.

Ah! how little knowledge does a man acquire in his life. He gathers it up like water, but like water it runs between his fingers, and yet, if his hands be but wet as though with dew, behold a generation of fools call out, 'See, he is a wise man!' Is it not so?