Quotes About Knowledge

To be successful you have to be dumb enough to think you can change the world and smart enough to know how.

If you would know these demands of life, you would gain a quicker success, at a greater pace, with less stress than otherwise.

A knowledgeable manager can lend to the success of an organization "almost" as much as a poorly trained manager can damage it.

If you knew how cowardly your enemy is you would slap him. Bravery is knowledge of the cowardice in the enemy.

The truest end of life is to know the life that never ends.

The best historian is he who combines knowledge of the evidence with the largest intellect, the warmest human sympathy and the highest imaginative powers.

when pain is to be born, a little courage helps more than much knowledge, a little human sympathy more than much courage, and the least tincture of the love of God more than all.

What is reason? Knowledge informed by sympathy, intelligence in the arms of love.

Ignorance may be bliss, but only if it outweighs curiosity. Curiosity is a gateway drug to sympathy.

There are no incurable diseases — only the lack of will. There are no worthless herbs — only the lack of knowledge.

All of life is education and everybody is a teacher and everybody is forever a pupil.

The role of the teacher is to create the conditions for invention rather than provide ready-made knowledge.

You can't teach people everything they need to know. The best you can do is position them where they can find what they need to know when they need to know it.

It is the teacher - what the teacher knows and can do - that is the most significant factor in student achievement.

Kings lose crowns but teachers stay intelligent

We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement.

Let the main object... to seek and to find a method of instruction, by which teachers may teach less, but learners learn more.

Imparting education not only enlightens the receiver, but also broadens the giver - the teachers, the parents, the friends.

Three things give the student the possibility of surpassing his teacher: ask a lot of questions, remember the answers, teach.

Gie me ae spark o' Nature's fire, That's a' the learning I desire.

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

Anyone who keeps learning stays young.

The most important single factor influencing learning is what the learner already knows. Ascertain this and teach him accordingly.

Teachers must be encouraged - I almost said 'freed', to pursue an education that strives for depth of understanding.