source: Confucius (2013). “Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean”, p.195, Courier Corporation
topic: Knowledge Learning, Silent, Satiety

Knowledge, learning, is an eternal thing.
source: "SUNDAY INTERVIEW - Musings of the Main Mormon / Gordon B. Hinckley, `president, prophet, seer and revelator' of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, sits at the top of one of the world's fastest-growing religions". Interview with Don Lattin, www.sfgate.com. April 13, 1997.
topic: Knowledge Learning, Eternal

topic: Heart, Knowledge Learning, Community, Depravity

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
source: "Gov. Brown Uses State of the State Speech to Push Education Reforms" by Adolfo Guzman-Lopez, www.scpr.org. January 24, 2013.
topic: Inspirational, Graduation, Education, Learning To Read, Joy Of Learning

source: "Alvin Toffler, author of Future Shock, dies aged 87". www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2016.
topic: Inspirational, Change, Positive, Futurist, Learning To Read

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.
topic: Inspiring, Education, Wisdom, Knowledge And Ignorance, Knowledge And Learning
source: William Arthur Ward (1968). “Thoughts of a Christian Optimist: The Words of William Arthur Ward”
topic: Motivational, Leadership, Basketball, Joy Of Learning, Inspirational Education
I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.
topic: Education, Appreciation, Teacher, Inspirational Teacher, Knowledge And Learning
What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.
topic: Inspirational, Education, Teacher, Inspirational Learning, Inspirational School
No one can take it away from you.
topic: Education, Teacher, Knowledge, Learning To Read, Inspirational Education
Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.
topic: Success, Education, Money, Makin Money, Good Money
topic: Inspirational, Education, Patience, Learning To Read, Bad Temper
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Independence Of Thought, About Success
Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.
topic: Inspirational, Witty, Business, Making A Living, Life Is Simple
topic: Graduation, Education, Time, Unschooling, Grad
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
topic: Inspirational, Positive, Leadership, Incomplete Knowledge, Fine Arts
The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.
topic: Graduation, Islands, Wonder, Knowledge And Wisdom, Knowledge Gained
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
topic: Inspirational, Graduation, Education, Inspirational Graduation, Inspirational High School Graduation
I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
topic: Inspirational, Education, Teacher, Math Education, Joy Of Learning
I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.
topic: Funny, Leadership, Education, Managing Change, Going Back To School
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
source: New Scientist 21 May 1964
topic: Graduation, Education, Teacher, Math Education, Inspirational Graduation
The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.
topic: Inspirational, Life, Inspiring, Live And Learn, Inspirational Education
Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.
source: "A Case of Hypochondria". Newsweek, July 6, 1970.
topic: Funny, Education, Teacher, Inspirational Education, Inspirational Learning
Any fool can know. The point is to understand.
topic: Wisdom, Learning, Knowledge, Knowing And Understanding, Knowledge And Learning
It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
source: "Small is Beautiful". The Radical Humanist, Vol. 37, No. 5, (p. 22), August 1973.
topic: Courage, Moving, Simple, Software Design, Something Bigger Than Yourself
The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.
topic: Knowledge, Caring, Discovery, Infinite Knowledge, Knowledge And Learning
When you know better you do better.
topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Knowledge And Learning, Knowledge Learning
If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it.
topic: Inspirational, Positive, Education, Knowledge And Learning, Knowledge Learning
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
topic: Inspirational, Dance, Education, Learning To Read, Math Education
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
topic: Inspirational, Funny, Educational, Inspirational Educational, Inspirational Learning
source: "'The Ascent of Man' ('Knowledge or Certainty')". Documentary TV Mini-Series, Episode 11, 1973.
topic: Inspirational, Education, Teacher, Knowledge Education, Knowledge Learning
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
topic: Inspirational, Positive, Real, Knowledge And Ignorance, Knowledge And Understanding
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
topic: Inspirational, Education, Learning, Unschooling, Inspirational Educational
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Graduation, Inspirational Education, Keep An Open Mind
Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.
source: Euripides (1931). “Four plays of Euripides: Alcestis, Medea, Hippolytus, & Iphigeneia among the Taurians”, Stanford University Press
topic: Inspirational, Life, Education, Knowledge And Learning, Knowledge Learning
source: FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Mar 15, 2014
topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Way In Life, Make Me Feel Better
Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.
topic: Teacher, Thinking, May, Knowledge And Learning, Knowledge Learning
Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.
topic: Education, Wisdom, Lying, Knowledge And Wisdom, Knowledge Education
If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?
topic: Leadership, Sports, Freedom, Knowledge And Learning, Knowledge And Understanding
A child educated only at school is an uneducated child.
topic: Education, Teacher, Children, Unschooling, Inspirational Educational
Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
source: Bertrand Russell (2013). “History of Western Philosophy: Collectors Edition”, p.578, Routledge
topic: Education, Stupid, School, Not Stupid, Knowledge And Ignorance
topic: Love, Inspirational, Funny, Spiritual Knowledge, Spiritual Truth
If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.
topic: Education, Men, Purses, Knowledge Education, Knowledge Learning
source: "Telephony", Volume 150, 1956.
topic: Education, Teaching, Learning, Inspirational Education, Inspirational Educational
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
topic: Inspirational, Education, Learning, Knowledge And Learning, Knowledge Education