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Sep 10, 2025
A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.
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
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.
Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.
You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft; a certain free-margin , or even vagueness - ignorance, credulity - helps your enjoyment of these things.
Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as hard duty. Never regard study as duty but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs.
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.
Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.
The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.
If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn't need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
As the twig is bent the tree is inclined.
The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.
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.
Education forms the common mind.
Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.
I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.
Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.
The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.
Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
I think education is power. I think that being able to communicate with people is power. One of my main goals on the planet is to encourage people to empower themselves.
Nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent.
The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.
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.
One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community.
Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.
I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
The world is full of educated derelicts.
Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.
I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambition.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.