Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down

Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities

Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure.

The sure foundations of the state are laid in knowledge, not in ignorance; and every sneer at education, at culture, at book learning, which is the recorded wisdom of the experience of mankind, is the demagogue's sneer at intelligent liberty, inviting national degeneracy and ruin.

Let my body dwell in poverty, and my hands be as the hands of the toiler; but let my soul be as a temple of remembrance where the treasures of knowledge enter and the inner sanctuary is hope.

Ignorance is not so damnable as humbug, but when it prescribes pills it may happen to do more harm