Only when we know little do we know anything; doubt grows with knowledge.

One has only to grow older to become more tolerant. I see no fault that I might not have committed myself.

[Prague is the] prettiest gem in the stone crown of the world...

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

First come I; my name is Jowett. There's no knowledge but I know it. I am master of this college: What I don't know isn't knowledge.

I said I liked being half-educated; you were so much more surprised at everything when you were ignorant.

The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody's word …