Good quotations about knowledge

Recently I came across a set of quotations about knowledge by Brian McDermott. The ones below are a few of my favorites. The whole collection is work checking out.


There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything, or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.
- Alfred Korzybski

Some of these contradict each other, for example:

Tis better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than open one's mouth and remove all doubt.
-Samuel

He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.
-Chinese proverb

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.
- Bob Edwards

Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity, and in cold weather becomes frozen, even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
- Leonardo Da Vinci

Education is not the filling of a bucket, but the lighting of a fire.
- W.B. Yeats

There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom.
- Francis Bacon

Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
- GK Chesterton

The central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people. The truly human society is a learning society, where grandparents, parents, and children are students together.
- Eric Hoffer

Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
- Bertrand Russell

A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
- George Santayana

A stupid man never learns from his mistakes. A smart man always learns from his mistakes. A wise man learns from other peoples mistakes.
- hayes@ug.cs.dal.ca

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
-William A. Ward

If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
-Tryon Edwards


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