Quotes About Wisdom

An English writer telephoned me from London, asking questions. One was, 'What's your alma mater?' I told him, 'Books.

Battery never dies, the ghetto keeps me wise.

Education gives sobriety to the young, comfort to the old, riches to the poor and is an ornament to the rich.

Education is what you must acquire without any interference from your schooling.

You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way.

Education turns an empty mind into an open mind. It turns information into behavioural transformation

The biggest guru-mantra is: never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you.

No one has ever died, from an overexposure to education.

An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

The only thing that is more expensive than education is ignorance.

Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow in more light.

Working with Martin Scorsese was an absolute minute-by-minute education without him ever being grandiose about it.

Only the educated are free.

If you think education is expensive, try estimating the cost of ignorance.

In general, children, like men, and men, like children, prefer entertainment to education.

What we suffer from today is an excess of education.

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.

Education is the movement from darkness to light.

The purpose of education is not to validate ignorance but to overcome it.

The true purpose of education is to make minds, not careers.

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

What we have learned from other becomes our own reflection.