General knowledge may have to be slight or even amateurish knowledge, but it is none the less useful, and we discourage it at our peril.

To live effectively is to live with adequate information.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

I am still of the opinion that only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious mind-sex and the dead.

Information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, wisdom is not truth, truth is not beauty, beauty is not love, love is not music. Music is the best.

Knowledge is power - if you know it about the right person.

I want to know God's thoughts ... the rest are details.

Men are four: He who knows not and knows not he knows not: he is a fool - shun him; He who knows not and knows he knows not: he is simple - teach him; He who knows and knows not he knows: he is asleep - wake him; He who knows and knows he knows: he is wise - follow him.

The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.

It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it was to say, 'I don't know.'