Quotes About Understanding

Education is the acquisition of the art of the utilisation of knowledge.

The less you know, the more I comprehend. You don't have to drag me down, I descend.

A great teacher never strives to explain his vision. He simply invites you to stand beside him and see for yourself.

What conservation education must build is an ethical underpinning for land economics and a universal curiosity to understand the land mechanism. Conservation may then follow.

The problem facing a comprehender is analogous to the problem that a detective faces when trying to solve a crime. In both cases there is a set of clues.

If you could lead through testing, the U.S. would lead the world in all education categories. When are people going to understand you don't fatten your lambs by weighing them?

Education makes the wise slightly wiser, but it makes the fool vastly more dangerous.

Nothing grieves a child more than to study the wrong lesson and learn something he wasn't suppose to.

we should contract our ideas of education, and expect no more from it than it is able to perform.

College: two hundred people reading the same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books.

I don't teach lies, but I do not teach all I know is true.

Uneducated people are unfortunate in that they do grasp complex issues, educated people, on the other hand, often do not understand simplicity, which is a far greater misfortune.

Don't try to change or tear your brother down, let him make his mistakes and he will come around.

I'm not sure at all that literature should be studied on the university level. ... Why should people study books? Isn't it rather silly to study Pride and Prejudice. Either you get it or you don't.

Philosophy is the education of grown-ups.

Enlightenment, don't know what it is. It's up to you, the way you think.

It means to educate myself incessantly about the world around me.

We should ask, not who is the most learned, but who is the best learned.

I don't like the word transparency; cold dead glass is transparent. I prefer education or understanding, which are more human.

Literacy is not the end of education nor even the beginning.

Literacy in itself is no education.

Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.

Education in the understanding of citizenship is a short-term affair if we are honest and earnest.

That which we do not call education is more precious than that which we call so.