Quotes from Richard Saul Wurman

The most essential prerequisite to understanding is to be able to admit when you don't understand something

People never forget things, they just never remembered it in the first place because it was too boring

We anguish over more school facilities and ignore the unlimited classroom that is our city.

In recognition that any good idea is a fragile thing, you have to give it a few minutes to breath—like a good red wine.

The only way to communicate is to understand what it is like not to understand. It is at that moment that you can make something understandable.

Perhaps the three principles closest to my heart--and the most radical--are learning to accept your ignorance, paying more attention to the question than to the answer, and never being afraid to go in an opposite direction to find a solution.

Information anxiety is the black hole between data and knowledge, and it happens when information doesn't tell us what we want or need to know.

Learning can be defined as the process of remembering what you are interested in.

Education is to learning as tour groups are to adventure.

Most of us do not even know how to ask a question. Most of us do not see the root of the word 'question' is 'quest'. Most of us don't have a quest in our life.

The journey from not knowing to knowing was his work. He was selling his desire to learn about a subject.