Lin-Manuel Miranda Quotes

Next to being witty, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit.

What we find in books is like the fire in our hearths. We fetch it from our neighbors, we kindle it at home, we communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.

The wise are not learned, the learned are not wise.

Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.

I'm rarely asked to play the smartest man in the room.

Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.

As a species we are always hungry for new knowledge.

My goal is to make the viewer a little bit smarter.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Understood what the struggle was about. My mother. Couldn't read or write, but she had more sense than many a graduate from Harvard.

Iron sharpens iron; scholar, the scholar.

Knowledge is power.

I'm a little smarter than most.

I willingly speak to those who know, but for those who do not know I forget.

The more rapidly truth is spread among mankind the better it will be for them. Only let us be sure that it is the truth.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

Give people knowledge and they really eat it up and they appreciate it a lot and the more that knowledge is made available to people, the more they will utilize it and let it be a part of them.

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

Anyone who acquires more than the usual amount of knowledge concerning a subject is bound to leave it as his contribution to the knowledge of the world.

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.

We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

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

The only barrier to human development is ignorance, and this is not insurmountable.

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.