Quotes About Understanding

Intellect distinguishes between the possible and the impossible; reason distinguishes between the sensible and the senseless. Even the possible can be senseless.

Education is not filling the mind with a lot of facts. Perfecting the instrument and getting complete mastery of my own mind [is the ideal of education].

Modern education is like being taken to the world's greatest restaurant & being forced to eat the menu.

Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.

We have ignored cultural literacy in thinking about education We ignore the air we breathe until it is thin or foul. Cultural literacy is the oxygen of social intercourse.

Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it

Self-knowledge is the only basis of true knowledge.

If we want our children to value education, then we must show our appreciation for knowledge.

Education today is a process of filling the mind with the contents of books, emptying the contents in the examination hall and returning empty-headed.

I ain't got much education, but I got some sense.

I was asked to memorise what I did not understand; and, my memory being so good, it refused to be insulted in that manner.

The investigation of the meaning of words is the beginning of education.

Education isn't everything, for a start it isn't an elephant

Education is a vaccine for violence.

It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English - up to fifty words used in correct context - no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese.

Read properly, fewer books than a hundred would suffice for a liberal education. Read superficially, the British Museum Library might still leave the student a barbarian.

Education must precede motivation.

I don't want revenge on the Taliban, I want education for sons and daughters of the Taliban.

All of us must cross the line between ignorance and insight many times before we truly understand.

The whole object of education is...to develop the mind. The mind should be a thing that works.

So maybe part of our formal education should be training in empathy. Imagine how different the world would be if, in fact, that were 'reading, writing, arithmetic, empathy.'

Education must enable one to sift and weigh evidence, to discern the true from the false, the real from the unreal, and the facts from the fiction.

Reasoning with a child is fine, if you can reach the child's reason without destroying your own.

Education, like faith, is the evidence of things not seen.