Quotes About Wisdom

Education, properly understood, is that which teaches discernment.

If you think education is expensive, you should try ignorance

Always to see the general in the particular is the very foundation of genius.

Everything, even the most ordinary daily affair, is enriched by the lessons that can be gleaned from art.

Yes, it is easy to see that nearly six years of magical education have not been wasted on you, Potter. Ghosts are transparent.

It can be of no practical use to know that Pi is irrational, but if we can know, it surely would be intolerable not to know.

A proper education enables young people to put their lives in order, which means knowing what things are more important than other things; it means putting first things first.

Pedantry crams our heads with learned lumber and takes out our brains to make room for it.

Education is preeminently a matter of quality, not amount.

Few things are as essential as education.

When a learner, in the fullness of his powers, comes to great truths unstaled by premature familiarity, he rejoices in the lateness of his lessons.

I believe in education and wish I had a better one.

Our attitude towards ourselves should be 'to be satiable in learning' and towards others 'to be tireless in teaching.

A boy will learn more true wisdom in a public school in a year than by a private education in five. It is not from masters, but from their equals, that youth learn a knowledge of the world.

And may we not say, Adeimantus, that the most gifted minds, when they are ill- educated, become the worst?

A modest garden contains, for those who know how to look and to wait, more instruction than a library.

They read all the books, but they can't find the answers.

The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.

So we might say that the most important thing one can acquire in college is a well-functioning bullshit meter.

I always felt that I came up short in the education department, but I've come to the conclusion that we all get an education.

[An educated person:] One who voluntarily does more thinking than is necessary for his own survival.

Getting your education is an advantage you have.

Education is the acquisition of the art of the utilisation of knowledge.

The less you know, the more I comprehend. You don't have to drag me down, I descend.