Brian Herbert Quotes

Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.

It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge.

Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.

Sometimes the ignorant are among the most educated.

A close friend can become a close enemy.

I want everybody to be smart. As smart as they can be. A world of ignorant people is too dangerous to live in.

Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.

The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance.

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits.

Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.

It is only the ignorant who despise education.

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

Only in Britain could it be thought a defect to be too clever by half. The probability is that too many people are too stupid by three-quarters.

The knowledge from an enlightened person breaks on the hard rocks of ignorance.

A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.

A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.

I am not afraid of my enemies, but by God, you must look out when you get among your friends.

Why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.