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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 15, 2025
The only source of knowledge is experience.
Knowledge, learning, is an eternal thing.
When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it.
When you know better you do better.
Learning to learn is to know how to navigate in a forest of facts, ideas and theories, a proliferation of constantly changing items of knowledge. Learning to learn is to know what to ignore but at the same time not rejecting innovation and research.
Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.
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?
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.
Learning is definitely not mere imitation, nor is it the ability to accumulate and regurgitate fixed knowledge. Learning is a constant process of discovery - a process without end.
Any fool can know. The point is to understand.
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.
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.
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
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.
Learning is not the accumulation of knowledge. Learning is movement from moment to moment.
No one can take it away from you.
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
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.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.