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Knowledge and Learning

Man [has] always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reason.
—Douglas Adams
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, 1980

I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.
—Franklin P. Adams

Not to know is bad; not to wish to know is worse.
—African Proverb

Learning is like rowing upstream. Advance or lose all.
—Anonymous

Teachers open the door, but you enter by yourself.
—Anonymous

Some people drink from the fountain of knowledge, others just gargle.
—Robert Anthony
Think, Think On and Think Again

All men by nature desire to know.
—Aristotle
Metaphysics, 350 B.C.

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
—Aristotle

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
—Francis Bacon

Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.
—Josh Billings

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
—Derek Bok

Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave.
—Baron Henry Peter Brougham

If you never change your mind, it means you never learn from experience, and that’s really frightening.
—Former Canadian Prime Minister Kim Campbell, 2004
on Real Time with Bill Maher

What would you do with a brain if you had one?
—Dorothy, to the Scarecrow
Judy Garland’s character in The Wizard of Oz, 1939

Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.
—Will Durant

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson

Only the educated are free.
—Epictetus
Discourses, 101 A.D.

Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
—Malcolm S. Forbes

The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.
—Henry Ford

An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It’s being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don’t.
—Anatole France

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
—Anatole France

You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.
—Galileo Galilei

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.
—Kahlil Gibran

Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
—Thomas Huxley

It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.
—Eugene Ionesco
Découvertes, 1969

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
—Thomas Jefferson

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
—Carl G. Jung

All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
—Juvenal

Education is too important to be left solely to the educators.
—Francis Keppel

Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.
—John Lubbock

The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.
—John Lubbock

A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.
—Groucho Marx

The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.
—Wendell Phillips

In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others of which we could have no idea before, so that we cannot solve one doubt without creating several new ones.
—Joseph Priestly, 1786

We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
—Marcel Proust

Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don’t they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.
—Will Rogers

Nothing is so irrevocable as mind.
—George Santayana
The Life of Reason, 1906

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
—William Shakespeare
Hamlet, 1602

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
—B. F. Skinner

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
—Socrates

No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions.
—Charles Steinmetz

Even a fool knows you can’t touch the stars, but it doesn’t stop a wise man from trying.
—Harry Stone
Harry Anderson’s character on Night Court

It is a good thing to learn caution from the misfortunes of others.
—Publilius Syrus

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

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
—Mark Twain

The end of man is knowledge but there’s one thing he can’t know. He can’t know whether knowledge will save him or kill him. He will be killed, all right, but he can’t know whether he is killed because of the knowledge which he has got or because of the knowledge which he hasn’t got and which if he had it would save him.
—Robert Penn Warren

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