Quotes About Knowledge

Education can give you a skill, but a liberal education can give you dignity.

Dignity is a mask we wear to hide our ignorance.

Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge.

It might also count as an insult to dignity, and a form of infantilization, if the government constantly reminds people of things that they already know.

Wise men have interpreted dreams, and the gods have laughed.

Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcende nce.

A good library can provide the furniture of our minds and the threads from which we weave our dreams.

The library furnished our dreams, helped us shape our ambitions, made up people of books and ideas and grand designs.

Google everything. I mean everything. Google your dreams, Google your problems. Don't ask a question before you Google it. You'll either find the answer or you'll come up with a better question.

Libraries are places that house our dreams, our fantasies, our thirst for adventure.

Those who say traveling is expensive, are just ill-informed.

Education is not a way to escape poverty, it is a way of fighting it.

Some people get an education without going to college. The rest get it after they get out.

An unschooled man who knows how to meditate upon the Lord has learned far more than the man with the highest education who does not know how to meditate.

The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

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

Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

People think of education as something that they can finish.

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

Every form of true education trains the student in self-reliance

Give your child a single valuable idea, and you have done more for his education than if you had laid upon his mind the burden of bushels of information.