Quotes About Wisdom

The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.

Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.

Common sense without education, is better than education without common sense.

Much that passes for education is not education at all but ritual. The fact is that we are being educated when we know it least.

The length of your education is less important than its breadth, and the length of your life is less important than its depth.

Let people have an education and you can't stop them.

Education never ends, Watson. It is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last.

Sixty years ago I knew everything. Now I know nothing. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.

Education is not filling the mind with a lot of facts. Perfecting the instrument and getting complete mastery of my own mind [is the ideal of education].

Having an education is one thing, being educated is another.

Think about every problem, every challenge, we face. The solution to each starts with education.

No wealth like education and no poverty like ignorance

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

If you step up the self-education curve, you will come up with more answers than you can use.

By the miracle of teaching, I can give you some of my ability, without losing any of it myself.

True education does not consist merely in the acquiring of a few facts of science, history, literature, or art, but in the development of character.

Self-knowledge is the only basis of true knowledge.

If we want our children to value education, then we must show our appreciation for knowledge.

Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

An education is the investment with the greatest returns.

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.

I ain't got much education, but I got some sense.

Education is the one thing that no one can take from you.