Quotes About Knowledge

At Stanford, he had experienced an epiphany: "I'm not really actually here to learn French, or whatever, I'm learning how to be able to learn anything, and then I can go forth and have a life. . . . I don't need the class." Learning was an end unto itself.

I discovered that great men were willing to share their ideas. And I was learning so much. You can learn only if others are ahead of you.

If you have to ask that question, you wouldn't understand the answer.

Knowledge forbidden? Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord Envy them that? Can it be a sin to know? Can it be death?

But to me the bottom line is the more education you can give yourself, and the more preparation you can do, the less chance of failing.

Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.

They say that we are better educated than our parents' generation. What they mean is that we go to school longer. They are not the same thing.

If you get your education, then you've got your platform set up for you.

Oh how our neighbour lifts his nose, To tell what every schoolboy knows.

Of all human activities, education is the one most likely to give rise to cant, pomposity and fraudulent expertise.

Education can no longer be the sole property of the state.

Education, properly understood, is that which teaches discernment.

I had to study acting to basically educate myself.

If you think education is expensive, you should try ignorance

The great menace of civilization in the present is that we offer an education with too little regard for the roots.

The education already given to the people creates the necessity of giving them more.

Academic education is the act of memorizing things read in books, and things told by college professors who got their education mostly by memorizing things read in books.

Education is the foundation of success. Just as scholastic skills are vitally important, so are financial skills and communication skills.

Where a generation ago people felt entitled to a chance at education, they now feel entitled to the credential affirming that they have completed a course of study regardless of their actual mastery.

The only useful thing I ever learned in school was that if you spit on your eraser it erased ink.

Just it's as close to magic as you can get in America, education.

It is only education and understanding of the past that teaches us not to repeat history.

It can be of no practical use to know that Pi is irrational, but if we can know, it surely would be intolerable not to know.

Pedantry crams our heads with learned lumber and takes out our brains to make room for it.