Beware of the man of one book.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

What signifies knowing the names, if you know not the nature of things?

Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.

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

A student is not a container you have to fill, but a torch you have to light up.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

Read, read, read. Never stop reading. And when you can't read anymore… write.

No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall.

The most crucial use of knowledge and education is to understand the importance of developing a good heart.

He who has so little knowledge of human natures as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

I keep six honest serving men (they taught me all I knew); Their names are What and Why and When And How and Where and Who.

The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think.

Learning is defined as a change in behavior. You haven't learned a thing until you can take action and use it.

He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.

You never had time to learn. They threw you in and told you the rules and the first time they caught you off base they killed you.

Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education.

Forgive but do not forget, or you will be hurt again. Forgiving changes the perspectives, forgetting loses the lesson.

An organizations ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.

Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.

Amid the seeming confusion of our mysterious world, individuals are so nicely adjusted to a system, and systems to one another and to a whole, that, by stepping aside for a moment, a man exposes himself to a fearful risk of losing his place forever.

Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown.

I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.

The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I am.

Let us affirm what seems to be the truth, that, whether one is or is not, one and the others in relation to themselves and one another, all of them, in every way, are and are not, and appear to be and appear not to be.

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

One beautiful heart is better than a thousand beautiful faces.

Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.

In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.

There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic. A man’s own observation, what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of, is the best physic to preserve health.

The wise man accepts his pain, endures it, but does not add to it.

First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it—and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove lid again—and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one any more.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.