Education and Knowledge

Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

Eyes and ears are poor witnesses to people if they have uncultured souls.

Who so neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.

Some wisdom you must learn from one who's wise.

Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.

It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free; but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free.

To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.

First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.

Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves?

Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

Men should strive to think much and know little.

All men by nature desire knowledge.

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the various parts of the speech.

Education is the best provision for old age.

It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought.

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.