Quotes About Education

Learn the Arabic language; it will sharpen your wisdom.

If popular medicine gave the people wisdom as well as knowledge, it would be the best protection for scientific and well-trained physicians.

I believe, indeed, that overemphasis on the purely intellectual attitude, often directed solely to the practical and factual, in our education, has led directly to the impairment of ethical values.

Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.

Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best, he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear his shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house.

Knowledge is of two kinds: that which is absorbed and that which is heard. And that which is heard does not profit if it is not absorbed.

Man needs now no more degrees, but character, No more study, but wisdom.

Read books, listen to tapes, attend seminars-they are decades of wisdom reduced to invaluable hours.

There are subjects in which I wish to become knowledgeable, and subjects in which I wish to remain wise.

True wisdom is to know the extent of what you don't know quite as well as you know what you do know.

Education gives you neither experience nor wisdom.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

Who is wise? He that learns from everyone.

If man chooses oblivion, he can go right on leaving his fate to his political leaders. If he chooses Utopia, he must initiate an enormous education program - immediately, if not sooner.

In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.

In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance.

The teacher gives not of his wisdom, but rather of his faith and lovingness.

Access to knowledge is the superb, the supreme act of truly great civilizations. Of all the institutions that purport to do this, free libraries stand virtually alone in accomplishing this mission.

It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.

Knowledge is a thing that one cannot have enough of. It is the fruit of wisdom, to be eaten carefully and digested fully, unlike that lunch you are bolting down, little friend.

The ignorant man is an ox. He grows in size, not in wisdom.

True wisdom is knowing what you don't know

There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.

School is an institution built on the axiom that learning is the result of teaching. And institutional wisdom continues to accept this axiom, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.