Quotes on Knowledge And Learning

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

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

Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.

Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn

Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.