Education and Knowledge

Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days.

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.

Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.

I would fain grow old learning many things.

We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue.

We do not learn. And what we call learning is only a process of recollection.

And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.

Knowledge is true opinion.

Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.

For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all. Too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.

The most important part of education is proper training in the nursery.

No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.

There are three classes of men.Lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.

If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.

There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.

A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.