Bram Stoker Quotes

And let a scholar all earth's volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.

No one, however smart, however well educated … is the suppository of all wisdom.

Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy

I wish I had known that education is the key. That knowledge is power. Now I pick up books and watch educational shows with my husband. I'm seeing how knowledge can elevate you.

How can people be so stupid? I marvel at that. See, I think you have to work as being ignorant - and if you're gonna work at being ignorant, why not work at being informed?

People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.

The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

If you're smarter than me, you shouldn't be reading my books.

Only in Britain could it be thought a defect to be too clever by half. The probability is that too many people are too stupid by three-quarters.

Knowledge is the most democratic source of power.

Scientia is knowledge. It is only in the popular mind that it is equated with facts.

Knowledge is a weapon. I intend to be formidably armed.

No man is the wiser for his learning; it may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon; but wit and wisdom are born with a man.

The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.

I mean people up here aren't stupid, I'm lower gene pool and I kind of sit in amazement at watching some of them because they are pretty damn smart.

Knowledge is the life of the mind.

Experience is what you have after you've forgotten her name.

It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.

We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

I think it's cool to be smart, and I think it's sexy to be smart.

The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.