Al Lewis Quotes

The wisest man I ever knew in my whole life could not read or write.

My mom used to tell me that the most valuable thing she owned was her library card. We were poor, but that's not what she was talking about. My mom knew that education opened doors and opened minds.

Knowledge itself is power.

Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.

My mother is very, very smart and commands respect because she has a lot of respect for herself.

Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.

Iron sharpens iron; scholar, the scholar.

Knowledge is power.

To be fair to my dad, he is one of the brightest men I've ever met.

Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.

The brighter you are, the more you have to learn.

A country so rich that it can send people to the moon still has hundreds of thousands of its citizens who can't read. That's terribly troubling to me.

Poverty and lack of knowledge must be challenged.

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

A quality education grants us the ability to fight the war on ignorance and poverty.

The difference between ignorant and educated people is that the latter know more facts. But that has nothing to do with whether they are stupid or intelligent.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

The fifth freedom is freedom from ignorance.

A learned fool is more a fool than an ignorant fool.

To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.

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