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“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”
“Learning is not the accumulation of knowledge. Learning is movement from moment to moment.”
Source: You are the World: Authentic Report of Talks and Discussions in American Universities
“If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.”
“The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.”
Source: God Emperor of Dune
“If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?”
“Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.”
Source: Modern Man in Search of a Soul
Source: The Works of John Locke: Essay concerning human understanding (concluded) Defence of Mr. Locke's opinion concerning personal identity. Of the conduct of the understanding. Some thoughts concerning reading and study for a gentlemen. Elements of natural philosophy. New method of a common-place-book
“Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.”
“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.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Walt Whitman (Illustrated)
“Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.”
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 larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.”
“Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.”
Source: THE SAYINGS OF CONFUCIUS
“The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.”
Source: Tempest-tost