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If people empty their purse into their heads, no one can take it away from them, for an investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

— Benjamin Franklin, as one of the Founders of the U.S., he was a leading author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790

Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet has free access to the sum of all human knowledge.

— Unknown Source

If people empty their purse into their heads, no one can take it away from them, for an investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

— Unknown Source

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

— Unknown Source

The greatest obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents, and the oceans was not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge.

— Unknown Source

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

— Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese-American artist and writer in both Arabic and English, 1883-1931

If people empty their purse into their heads, no one can take it away from them, for an investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

— Benjamin Franklin, as one of the Founders of the U.S., he was a leading author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790

The greatest obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents, and the oceans was not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge.

— Daniel J. Boorstin, U.S. historian, professor, attorney, and writer, 1914-2004

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

— Laurence Sterne, Irish novelist and clergyman, 1713-1768

Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet has free access to the sum of all human knowledge.

— Jimmy Wales, Internet entrepreneur and the co-founder of Wikipedia, the online non-profit encyclopedia, Born 1966

You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.

— Albert Einstein, German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel Laureate who developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics, 1879-1955