“The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.”
Source: The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
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“A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.”
“The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.”
“Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.”
“You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.”
“The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.”
“It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.”
“The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.”
Source: Lun Yü
“Education is the mother of leadership.”
Source: Freedom and the Liberal Arts
“Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.”
Source: Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century
“Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.”
“The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.”
“An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less.”
“He who knows what he is told must know a lot of things that are not so.”
“It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.”
“What we do not understand we do not possess.”
Source: The Goethe Treasury: Selected Prose and Poetry
“You don't understand anything until you learn it more than one way.”
“If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.”
Source: The New Dictionary of Thoughts
Source: Science and Culture: And Other Essays
“Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.”
“Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.”
“The essence of education is the education of the body.”
Source: Collected Edition of the Novels and Tales
Source: Silva: or, a discourse of forest-trees, and the propagation of timber in His Majesty's dominions