Education and Knowledge

It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

The doer alone learneth.

Better know nothing than half-know many things.

Genius too does nothing but learn first how to lay bricks then how to build, and continually seek for material and continually form itself around it.Every activity of man is amazingly complicated, not only that of the genius: but none is a ‘miracle.

One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.

The power of gradually losing all feeling of strangeness or astonishment, and finally being pleased at anything, is called the historical sense or historical culture.

To learn to see- to accustom the eye to calmness, to patience, and to allow things to come up to it; to defer judgment, and to acquire the habit of approaching and grasping an individual case from all sides. This is the first preparatory schooling of intellectuality. One must not respond immediately to a stimulus; one must acquire a command of the obstructing and isolating instincts.

The images of myth must be the daemonic guardians, omnipresent and unnoticed, which protect the growth of the young mind, and guide man's interpretation of his life and struggles.

It is not the victory of science that distinguishes our nineteenth century, but the victory of scientific method over science.

None of the people have any real interest in a science, who only begin to be enthusiastic about it when they themselves have made discoveries in it.

In large States public education will always be extremely mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is at best only mediocre.

Ultimately, nobody can get more out of things, including books, than he already knows.

One thing a man must have: either a naturally light disposition or a disposition lightened by art and knowledge.

We are unknown to ourselves, we men of knowledge - and with good reason. We have never sought ourselves - how could it happen that we should ever find ourselves? It has rightly been said: "Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also"; our treasure is where the beehives of our knowledge are.

Popular medicine and popular morality belong together and ought not to be evaluated so differently as they still are: both are the most dangerous pseudo-sciences.

Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education; dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with the pen?

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by it's ability to climb a tree, it will live it's whole life believing that it is stupid.

How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time?

One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

The best-educated human being is the one who understands most about the life in which he is placed.

When you take stuff from one writer, it’s plagiarism; but when you take it from many writers it’s research.

Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.