Education and Knowledge

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.

This I know - that I know nothing.

Those who know nothing of foreign languages know nothing of their own.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.

All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.

To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

The only source of knowledge is experience.

You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.

Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

Learn to distinguish the difference between errors of knowledge and breaches of morality.

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.

He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.

Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

Which is the best government? That which teaches us to govern ourselves.

It [economics] is a method rather than a doctrine, an apparatus of the mind, a technique of thinking which helps its possessor to draw correct conclusions.

A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.

To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience ultimately one must have one's experiences in common.