If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man’s future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual’s total development lags behind? 536
As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself. 575
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. 616
Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions. 549
Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future. 606
Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know – and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. 488
Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family. 599
All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason. 533
Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again. 2.11K