Quotes About Insight

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

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

I don't believe in colleges and universities.

A great teacher never strives to explain his vision. He simply invites you to stand beside him and see for yourself.

Give a man a hoe and he is something to exploit. Give him a book and he is something to fear.

A good student is one who will teach you something.

I think for everybody reading can be a solace, illumination, education.

Journalism's been a continuing course in adult education for me.

It looks like I had the most irrelevant education than anybody in the planet could have.

Education best serves students by helping them be more self-reflective.

It means to educate myself incessantly about the world around me.

We should ask, not who is the most learned, but who is the best learned.

The regular course of studies, the years of academical and professional education, have not yielded me better facts than some idle books under the bench at the Latin School.

People who don't read seem to me mysterious. I don't know how they think or learn about other people. Novels are a very important part of our education.

Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.

That which we do not call education is more precious than that which we call so.

The ignorant are to be found as much among the educated as among the uneducated.

The greater our knowledge increases the greater our ignorance unfolds.

Enlightenment is light.

Talking to people is the most educational thing I know.

The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts, but learning how to make facts live.

Ignorant is not the one who does not know much but the one who does not make senses.

The experience of history exalts and enlarges the horizon of our intellectual view.