Quotes About Knowledge

Brain scientists and education scientists don't get together very often, and we end up living in our own little silos.

My mother had been a grade-school teacher, and my father had an eighth-grade education.

The regular course of studies, the years of academical and professional education, have not yielded me better facts than some idle books under the bench at the Latin School.

I do not allow my schooling to interfere with my education

Sylvie's knowledge, like Izzie's, was random yet far-ranging, 'The sign that one has acquired one's learning from reading novels rather than an education.

Some people will pay their tuition, and then defy you to give them an education.

I've learned so much from all my mistakes. I just wish I had gotten my education.

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

I think schools, as they are now regulated, the hot-beds of vice and folly, and the knowledge of human nature supposedly attained there, merely cunning selfishness.

What is desperately needed... is the skepticism and the sense of history that a liberal arts education provides.

What was the point of education, he thought, if people went out afterward and used it?

The experience taught me that the essence of a Cambridge education centers on two questions: What does it mean? How do you know?

The ignorant are to be found as much among the educated as among the uneducated.

Nature is stronger than education.

Just like my father, I've always loved education. In school I was a member of the honor society.

Learning to play two pairs is worth about as much as a college education, and about as costly.

The decline of education in North America and I suppose in Western Europe makes it harder to have a common body of references.

Very few can be trusted with an education.

As soon as you start asking what education is for, what the use of it is, you're abandoning the basic assumption of any true culture, that education is worth while for its own sake.

Education means the ability to think independently and creatively, and development of the skill of applying one's knowledge in dealing with people and situations in the real world.

Education is one of the most important tools that you can give somebody.

Education is the number one priority.

I definitely had a top-notch education.

Reading becomes the fuel for development.