Intellectual Growth Quotes

"The more you know, the more you know you don't know." "The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking." "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." "To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man." "They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom." "He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger." "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." "You cannot open a book without learning something." "Learning without thought is labor lost thought without learning is perilous." "The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds." "Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world." "Ideas are more important than age" "The ability to learn is the most important quality a leader can have" "The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects." "In my whole life, I have known no wise people who didn't read all the time—none, zero" "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" "The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge." "There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance" "The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free" "Do not read as children do to amuse yourself or like the ambitious for the purpose of instruction No read in order to live"