Quotes on Knowledge 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.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

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.

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.

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

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.

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

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

The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown.