Quotes on Education And Knowledge

The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft; a certain free-margin , or even vagueness - ignorance, credulity - helps your enjoyment of these things.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.

Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us that we are nothing but acorns and that our greatest happiness will be to become bigger, fatter, shinier acorns; but that is of interest only to pigs. Our faith gives us knowledge of something better: that we can become oak trees.

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

The secret in education lies in respecting the student.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.

It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.