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In my whole life, I have known no wise people (over a broad subject matter) who didn’t read all the time—none, zero. You’d be amazed how much Warren reads—and at how much I read. My children laugh at me. They think I’m a book with a couple of legs sticking out.
Charlie Munger Poor Charlie’s Almanack · 2005

Quotes

“The motive of science was the extension of man, on all sides, into Nature, till his hands should touch the stars.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson · Beauty, 1841 · Primary source

“Wisdom is the daughter of experience.”

Leonardo da Vinci · The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, 1888 · Primary source

“Truth was the only daughter of Time.”

Leonardo da Vinci · The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, 1888 · Primary source

“The true method of knowledge is experiment.”

William Blake · All Religions are One, 1788 · Primary source

“Knowlege is power.”

Thomas Jefferson · Letter to George Ticknor, 1817 · Primary source

“Fear always springs from ignorance.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson · The American Scholar, 1837 · Primary source

“I would study, I would know, I would admire forever.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson · Harvard Divinity School Address, 1838 · Primary source

“To be rich is to have a ticket of admission to the masterworks and chief men of each race. It is to have the sea, by voyaging; to visit the mountains, Niagara, the Nile, the desert, Rome, Paris, Constantinople; to see galleries, libraries, arsenals, manufactories.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson · Wealth, 1860 · Primary source

“All our science lacks a human side.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson · Beauty, 1841 · Primary source

“There is no knowledge that is not power.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson · Old Age, 1870 · Primary source

“Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.”

Henry David Thoreau · Walden, 1849 · Primary source

“How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.”

Henry David Thoreau · Walden, 1849 · Primary source

“All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions.”

Leonardo da Vinci · The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, 1888 · Primary source

“The test of all knowledge is experiment. Experiment is the sole judge of scientific truth.”

Richard Feynman · The Feynman Lectures on Physics, 1961-1964 · Primary source

“An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.”

Benjamin Franklin · No reliable source

“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.”

Marie Curie · No reliable source

Works

John F. Kennedy · 1962
Remarks at a Dinner Honoring Nobel Prize Winners of the Western Hemisphere

Kennedy welcomes Nobel laureates to the White House, praising the international pursuit of knowledge, peace and service across national boundaries.

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