Quotes About Knowledge

He that teaches us anything which we knew not before is undoubtedly to be reverenced as a master.

Teachers shouldn't make the mistake of always thinking they're the smartest person in the room

A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world's ignorance and press for admission.

Every person of learning is finally his own teacher.

The man (or woman) who can make hard things easy is the educator.

Golf is about knowledge, and studying another player - more than listening to a teacher - is the best way to get it.

Teachers who offer you the ultimate answers do not possess the ultimate answers, for if they did, they would know that the ultimate answers cannot be given, they can only be received.

What makes you think that what you know is any different from what I know? I had different teachers.

Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.

Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else.

In the practical use of our intellect, forgetting is as important as remembering.

Be versed in ancient lore, and familiarize yourself with the modern; then may you become teachers.

If a man keeps cherishing his old knowledge so as continually to be acquiring new, he may be a teacher of others.

I taught you everything you know. But I didn't teach you everything I know.

One of the marks of a great teacher lies not only in an ability to impart knowledge but also in knowing when to encourage a student to go off on his own.

I woke up to the world of science when my high school chemistry teacher introduced me to the elegantly ordered periodic table.

Excellent instruction is less about what a teacher does and more about what students can do and know as a result of the lesson.

Knowledge-like the sky- is never private property. No teacher has a right to withhold it from anyone who asks for it. Teaching is the art of sharing.

If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.

Numerous are the academic professors, but rare are wise and noble teachers.

For my teachers, unfortunately, certain things were, as they are for you, only tales of power

Experience is not the best teacher. Other people's experience is the best teacher.

Learning is more than absorbing facts, it is acquiring understanding.

The number one goal of teachers should be to help students learn how to learn.