Quotes About Knowledge

Ignorance is the mother of all the evil and all the misery we see.

Go into your own room and get the Upanishads out of your own Self. You are the greatest book that ever was or ever will be, the infinite depository of all that is. Until the inner teacher opens, all outside teaching is in vain.

D esire, ignorance, and inequality this is the trinity of bondage

B ooks are infinite in number and time is short The secret of knowledge is to take what is essential Take that and try to live up to it

Education is a life that has no end, an inexhaustible treasure, it has to be accepted until it gives up the last breath of death, without which all voids are unknown.

Teacher respect, motivation, self-improvement, deep subject knowledge, preparation, and transferring information are qualities all teachers should possess at any level and in any environment.

Student interest is directly proportional to the depth and breadth of teachers' knowledge; and student interest is vital to effective teaching.

You haven't made a fire till it has burned. You haven't made a dollar till it's earned. And no teaching has transpired If the child has not acquired. You haven't taught a child till he has learned.

Ada satu prinsip yang harus kamu ingat. Ilmu itu harta yang paling berharga. Kalau ada kesempatan untuk menambah ilmu, jangan pernah kamu sia-siakan.

What I learnt came to me . . . at second and at third hand, in chunks and puzzles, degrees and flashes.

35 Los superjefes también toleran que se admita no saber algo, siempre y cuando usted se dedique a encontrar la respuesta… rápidamente.

Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.

The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's leisure.

Knowledge fills a large brain it merely inflates a small one.

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.

At it's highest level, the purpose of teaching is not to teach—it is to inspire the desire for learning. Once a student's mind is set on fire, it will find a way to provide its own fuel.

The most worthwhile form of education is the kind that puts the educator inside you, as it were, so that the appetite for learning persists long after the external pressure for grades and degrees has vanished. Otherwise you are not educated; you are merely trained.

The French may be straining the truth in their famous saying that "to understand all is to forgive all"," but it is certainly true that the more we know of any given person, the harder it becomes to hate him.

When a man says "I know what I mean, but I can't express it," he generally does not know what he means—for there can be no knowledge without words; there can only be feelings.

Ninety per cent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves -- so how can we know anyone else?

As Bernard Shaw said, "He who can, does: he who cannot, teaches." But, as Sydney J. Harris put it, "Let's revise Shaw's foolish saying to 'He who can, does; he who understands, teaches.

If you want to be truly successful invest in yourself to get the knowledge you need to find your unique factor. When you find it and focus on it and persevere your success will blossom.

If you want to improve your understanding, drink coffee. Sir James Mackintosh used to say, he believed the difference between one man and another was produced by the quantity of coffee he drank.

Science is his forte, and omniscience his foible.