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“If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.”

“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”

“If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.”

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”

“Knowledge is recognizing what you know and what you don't.”

“The logic of all this seems to be that it is all right for young people in a democracy to learn about any civilization or social theory that is not dangerous, but that they should remain entirely ignorant of any civilization or social theory that might be dangerous on the ground that what you don't know can't hurt you ... a complete denial of the democratic principle that the general diffusion of knowledge and learning through the community is essential to the preservation of free government.”

“No one can take it away from you.”

“[on education] It's knowing where to go to find out what you need to know, and it's knowing how to use the information once you get it.”

“Learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.”

“The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.”

“Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.”

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

“Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.”

“A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.”

“What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.”

“Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.”

“The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.”

“If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.”

“Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.”

“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.”

“The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.”

“I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.”

“Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.”

“Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.”

“Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty.”

“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.”

“Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”

“I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.”

“Curiosity has its own reason for existence.”

“Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.”