Intellectual Growth Quotes

"The more you know, the more you know you don't know." "Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world." "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." "Do not read as children do to amuse yourself or like the ambitious for the purpose of instruction No read in order to live" "The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free" "There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance" "The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge." "There is nothing which can better deserve your patronage, than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness" "In my whole life, I have known no wise people who didn't read all the time—none, zero" "The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects." "The ability to learn is the most important quality a leader can have" "Ideas are more important than age" "The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking." "The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds." "Learning without thought is labor lost thought without learning is perilous." "You cannot open a book without learning something." "When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge." "He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger." "They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom." "To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man."