Education and Knowledge

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles with it.

You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.

An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

I find television very educational. Every time someone switches it on I go into another room and read a good book.

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one.

A fool learns from experience. A wise man learns from the experience of others.

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

Income seldom exceeds Personal Development.

A prudent question is one half of wisdom.

Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.

The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.

Let every man do that which is right, strive with all his might towards the goal which can never be obtained, develop to the last breath the gifts with which the gracious Creator has endowed him, and never cease to learn. For life is short, art eternal.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

He knew, as did Socrates, that we know nothing.

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

Children don’t heed the life experiences of their parents, and nations ignore history. Bad lessons always have to be learned anew.

Upon reading books on philosophy, I learned that I stood there like a blind man in front of a painting… the works of speculative philosophy are beyond my reach.

Science will stagnate if it is made to serve practical goals.

Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty.