On Knowledge

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.

C.S. Lewis

Any fool can know. The point is to understand.

Albert Einstein

A man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

Albert Einstein

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

Albert Einstein

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.

Alvin Toffler

You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.

Lyndon B. Johnson

The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.

Voltaire

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

Winston Churchill

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

Mahatma Gandhi

Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.

William Crawford

Being a student is easy. Learning requires actual work.

John Quincy Adams

If you think education is expensive, try estimating the cost of ignorance.

Howard Gardner

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.

Carl Rogers

Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.

Isaac Asimov

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

Nelson Mandel

Continuous learning is the minimum requirement for success in any field.

Brian Tracy

To attain knowledge, add things every day. To attain wisdom, remove things every day.

Lao Tzu

Learn continually. There’s always “one more thing” to learn.

Steve Jobs

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

Albert Einstein

It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning.

Claude Bernard

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.

Sydney J. Harris

Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.

John Dewey

Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.

Mark Twain

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