Quotes on Learning Knowledge

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.

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

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.

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

Fools despise wisdom and instruction.

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.

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

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

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

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

Any fool can know. The point is to understand.