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The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown.
Sep 10, 2025
There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.
The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.
The only source of knowledge is experience.
You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way.
When you know better you do better.
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.
If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it.
Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
Know what you do not know.
A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?
The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
The witches, the wise women, and the healers were also always the counselors. It's a whole other tradition of knowledge and learning that has been suppressed because it had political implications.
The logic of all this seems to be that it is all right for young people in a democracy to learn about any civilization or social theory that is not dangerous, but that they should remain entirely ignorant of any civilization or social theory that might be dangerous on the ground that what you don't know can't hurt you ... a complete denial of the democratic principle that the general diffusion of knowledge and learning through the community is essential to the preservation of free government.
Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.
What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.
The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
[on education] It's knowing where to go to find out what you need to know, and it's knowing how to use the information once you get it.
Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty.
A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.
Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.
The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.
Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
As for will, woman should be considered superior to man for Eve ate of the apple for love of knowledge and learning, but Adam ate of it merely because she asked him.
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.
No one can take it away from you.
The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.