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education

• Sixty years ago Iknew everything; now I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
  --- Will Durant

• What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.
  --- George Bernard Shaw

• The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.
  --- Mohammed

• Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficulat to drive; easy to govern, but impossilbe to enslave.
  --- Henry Peter, Lord Brougham

• The purpose of education is to provide everyone with the opportunity to learn how best he may serve the world.

• Education should be gradual as the moonrise, perceptible not in progress but in result.

• Education is a companion which no misfortune can decrease, no crime destroy, no enemy alienate, no despotism enslave; at home a friend, abroad and introduction, in solitude a solace, in society and ornament. It chastens vice, guides virtue, and gives grace and government to genius. Education may cost financial sacrifice and mental pain, but in both money and life values it will repay every cost one hundred fold.

• Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the abilityto make ourselves do the thing we have to do whenit ought to be done, whether we like it or not.

ignorance

• Ignorance is the primary source of all misery and vice.
  --- Victor Cousin

• Everyone is ignorant, only on different subjects.
  --- Will Rogers

• When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do no know it, to admit that you do not - this is true knowledge.

• The more you know, the more you know you don’t know.

• The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
  --- Lord David Cecil

• Have courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.

knowledge

• Share your knowledge. It’s a way to achieve immortality.

• Kowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
  --- Samuel Johnson

• All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.
  --- Leonardo da Vinci

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

• We do not know one millionth of one percent about anything.
  --- Thomas Alva Edison

• Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
  --- George Bernard Shaw

• Try to know everything of something, and something of everything.
  --- Henry Peter, Lord Brougham

• Sinc we cannot know all that is to be known of everything, we ougth to know a little about everything.
  --- Blaise Pascal

  Better now nothing than half-know many things.
  --- Friedrich Nietzsche

learning

• Personally I’m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
  --- Winston Churchill

• Every man I meet is in some way my superior; and in that I can learn from him.

• Learn from the mistakes of others - you can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.

wisdom

• We can be knowlgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
  --- Michel de Montaigne

• Wisdom consists in knowing what to do with what you know.

• To admit I have been in the wrong is but saying that I am wiser today than I was yesterday.

• Wisdom is to know what is best worth knowing and to do what is best worth doing.

• And as all have not faith, seek ye diligently and teach one another words of wisdom; yea, seek ye out of the best books words of wisdom; seek learning, even by study and also by faith.
  - DC 88:118

• Happiness itself is sufficient excuse. Beautiful things are right and true; so beautiful actions are those pleasing to the gods. Wise people have an inward sense of what is beautiful, and the highest wisdom is to trust this intuition and be guided by it. The answer to the last appeal of what is right lies within a person’s own breast. Trust thyself.
  --- Aristotle

• Stars may be seen from the bottom of a deep well, when they cannot be seen from the top of the mountain. So are many things learned in adversity, which the prosperous man dreams not of.

• Much of wisdom remains to be learned, and if it is only to be learned through adversity, we must endeavor to endure adversity with what fortitude we can command. But if we can acquire wisdom soon enough, adversity may not be necessary and the future of man may be happier than any part of his past.

last updated: June 4