Education and Knowledge

I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in this world.

All erroneous ideas, all poisonous weeds, all ghosts and monsters, must be subjected to criticism; in no circumstance should they be allowed to spread unchecked.

A vocabulary of truth and simplicity will be of service throughout your life.

Every truth has four corners: as a teacher I give you one corner, and it is for you to find the other three.

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that History has to teach.

The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.

Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.

A woman, especially if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.

I prefer tongue-tied knowledge to ignorant loquacity.

We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.

Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.

Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge.

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.

If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation.

There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

Knowledge exists to be imparted.

All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.

Someday, in the distant future, our grandchildren's grandchildren will develop a new equivalent of our classrooms. They will spend many hours in front of boxes with fires glowing within. May they have the wisdom to know the difference between light and knowledge.

The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.