Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton Quotes

Doubt grows with knowledge.

If we become increasingly humble about how little we know, we may be more eager to search.

You must learn day by day, year by year to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens.

The more I read, the more I realise what I don't know.

It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.

Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.

You should not ask questions without knowledge.

Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading.

If knowledge and foresight are too penetrating and deep, unify them with ease and sincerity.

Anything that I read, I read because I'm interested in it.

We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we need to know ourselves better; that we require knowledge, not just of self and others, but of the way things are.

Some people drink from the fountain of knowledge, others just gargle.

Curiosity killed the cat, but where human beings are concerned, the only thing a healthy curiosity can kill is ignorance.

I know of no time in human history where ignorance was better than knowledge.

The one thing that 'Via Dolorosa' has is no opinions. To me, curiosity is 50 times as valuable as opinion.

Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.

I read many things. I read to fill in my knowledge of the world.

Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.

Don't let your heart get big because of your knowledge. Take counsel with the ignorant as well as with the scholar.

To me the offer of certainty, the offer of complete security, the offer of an impermeable faith that can’t give way, is an offer of something not worth having. I want to live my life taking the risk all the time that I don’t know anything like enough yet. That I haven’t understood enough. That I can’t know enough. That I’m always hungrily operating on the margins of a potentially great harvest of future knowledge and wisdom… Those who tell you that you can only live by accepting an absolute authority: don’t think of that as a gift. Think of it as a poison chalice. Push it aside, however tempting it is. Take the risk of thinking for yourself. Much more happiness, truth, beauty, and wisdom will come to you that way.

I look at every book as a new learning opportunity.

If you asked me what the most important thing in my life is, it's learning.

I think reading is important for a variety of things. I mean, first of all, it's a way to get information and find out what's going on in the world. But also, it helps your imagination.

I think life is about having the mixture of the curiosity of an older person and the imagination of a child.

There is always a place I can take someone's curiosity and land where they end up enlightened when we're done. That's my challenge as an educator. No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don't ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives.