Quotes About Discovery

Maybe she'd needed her dream to come true to realize it was the wrong dream.

There is a brilliant child locked inside every student.

You can find magic wherever you look. Sit back and relax, all you need is a book.

New facts often trigger new ideas

Education is the process in which we discover that learning adds quality to our lives. Learning must be experienced.

I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students.

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

The job, of course, will never be finished. For a nation, as for an individual, education is a perpetually unfinished journey, a continuing process of discovery.

Knowing is NOT the most important thing. To be able to FIND OUT is more important than knowing.

Asking "Why?" can lead to understanding. Asking "Why not?" can lead to breakthroughs.

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.

Books are a uniquely portable magic.

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

By seeking and blundering we learn.

A library is a place where you learn what teachers were afraid to teach you.

Schooling is what happens inside the wall of the school, some of which is educational. Education happens everywhere, and it happens from the moment a child is born-some say before-until it dies.

My Alma mater is the Chicago Public Library.

In mathematics, the art of asking questions is more valuable than solving problems.

The essence of education is not to stuff you with facts but to help you discover your uniqueness, to teach you how to develop it, and then to show you how to give it away.

A succession of eye-openers each involving the repudiation of some previously held belief.

A Harvard education consists of what you learn at Harvard while you are not studying.

The aim of education should be to preserve and nurture the yearning for learning that a child is born with.

By its nature, the metropolis provides what otherwise could be given only by traveling; namely, the strange.

Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.