Knowledge Quotes

"The goal of education is not to increase the amount of knowledge but to create the possibilities for a child to invent and discover" "To express the same idea in still another way, I think that human knowledge is essentially active" "Scientific knowledge is in perpetual evolution; it finds itself changed from one day to the next" "There is no greater sin than that of willful ignorance" "The wisest man I ever knew in my life could not read or write" "The first step to the knowledge of the wonder and mystery of life is the recognition of the monstrous nature of the earthly human realm" "A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things" "The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it" "Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours" "A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees " "Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed" "There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true." "We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom." "Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding" "Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand" "Once you learn to read you will be forever free" "Ignorance is always afraid of change" "Read in order to live" "Libraries have always seemed to me like the richest places in the world" "Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry"