Intelligent Quotes

“Education is that which remains, if one has forgotten everything he learned in school.”

“Experience keeps a dear school, yet fools will learn in no other.”

“The prize is the pleasure of finding the thing out.”

“I think a life properly lived is just learn, learn, learn all the time.”

“Genius without education is like silver in the mine.”

“Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.”

“I don’t know what’s the matter with people: they don’t learn by understanding; they learn by some other way—by rote, or something. Their knowledge is so fragile!”

“I’m afraid that’s the way it [reality] is. If there are twenty factors and they interact some, you’ll have to learn to handle it—because that’s the way the world is. But you won’t find it that hard if you go at it Darwin-like, step by step with curious persistence. You’ll be amazed at how good you can get.”

“How little we know of what there is to know. I wish that I were going to live a long time instead of going to die today because I have learned much about life in these four days; more, I think, than in all the other time. I’d like to be an old man and to really know. I wonder if you keep on learning or if there is only a certain amount each man can understand. I thought I knew about so many things that I know nothing of. I wish there was more time.”

“The only rational way of educating is to be an example—if one can’t help it, a warning example.”

“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.”

“We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. This is our permanent state.”

“Just as iron rusts unless it is used, and water putrifies or, in cold, turns to ice, so our intellect spoils unless it is kept in use.”

“Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.”

“I would study, I would know, I would admire forever.”

“In the development of our understanding of complex phenomena, the most powerful tool available to the human intellect is abstraction.”

“The thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.”

“The life of man is a self-evolving circle, which, from a ring imperceptibly small, rushes on all sides outwards to new and larger circles, and would embrace at last the universal sphere.”

“I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.”

“Finally, I said that I couldn’t see how anyone could he educated by this self-propagating system in which people pass exams, and teach others to pass exams, but nobody knows anything.”

“The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.”

“Learning never exhausts the mind.”