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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 17, 2025
There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.
The only source of knowledge is experience.
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
Learning is finding out what you already know.
We may differ widely in environments, education, learning, knowledge, or lack of it, and in our personalities, our likes and dislikes. But if we set ourselves the task, we'll find a meeting place somehow and somewhere.
Know what you do not know.
Fools despise wisdom and instruction.
If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?
Any fool can know. The point is to understand.
They know enough who know how to learn.
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.
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.
Learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
I spent thirty years learning manners, and I spent twenty years learning knowledge.
The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.
It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.
Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.
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.
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.
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.
I am not young enough to know everything.
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.
I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
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.
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Knowledge about yourself binds, weighs, ties you down; there is no freedom to move, and you act and move within the limits of thatknowledge. Learning about yourself is never the same as accumulating knowledge about yourself. Learning is active present and knowledge is the past; if you are learning to accumulate, it ceases to be learning; knowledge is static, more can be added to it or taken away from it, but learning is active, nothing can be added or taken away from it for there is no accumulation at any time.
People will never forget how you made them feel.
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.