4 Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes on Knowledge

Alexis de Tocqueville quotes on knowledge

22. General ideas are no proof of the strength, but rather of the insufficiency of the human intellect.

27. Americans of all ages, all stations of life, and all types of disposition are forever forming associations... In democratic countries knowledge of how to combine is the mother of all other forms of knowledge; on its progress depends that of all the others.

109. When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.

111. It is easier for the world to accept a simple lie than a complex truth.