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"The wisest man is generally he who thinks himself the least so."
"That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the
height of wisdom in the next."
"Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar."
"It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded
that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err."
"One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know."
"The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook."
"Among mortals second thoughts are wisest."
"Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because
it comes late."
"It is more easy to be wise for others than for ourselves."
"The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone."
"It is very good for a man to talk about what he does not understand; as long as he understands that he does not understand it."
"Historical knowledge is indispensable for those who want to build a better world."
"Know how to listen and you will profit even from those who talk badly."
"Every failure teaches a man something, to wit, that he will probably fail again."
"...it is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance."
"The great questions are those an intelligent child asks and, getting no answers, stops asking."
"If I simply told you, you would not know; you simply would have been told.
Study it thoroughly and ... I will
ask you. You will answer and then you will know."
"We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of the superstitious fears which were implanted in his imagination, no matter how utterly his reason may reject them."
"Without education, you are not going anywhere in this world."
"Education is the ability to deal with life's situations."
"The ability to ask the right question is more than half the battle of finding the answer."
"In times of change learners inherit the earth while the learned are perfectly prepared for a world that no longer exists."
"School has been so set apart, so isolated from the ordinary conditions and motives of life, that the place where children are sent for discipline is the one place in the world where it is most difficult to get experience--the mother of all discipline worth the name."
John Dewey _The School and Society_ 1907
"One must learn by doing the thing. For though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try."
~ Sophocles ~ (BC 495-406, Greek Tragic Poet)
"Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence."
"I know of nothing more inspiring than that of making discoveries for one's self."
"Writing and thinking and learning (are) the same process."
"Everyone is gifted. Some of us, however, choose not to open the package."
"Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it."
"The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it."
"What one knows is, in youth, of little moment; they know enough who know how to learn."
"Next
in importance to freedom and justice is popular education,
without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently
maintained."
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James A. Garfield
"Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to
time that nothing that's worth knowing can be taught."
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Oscar Wilde
"Education is an important element in the struggle for human rights. It is the
means to help our children and thereby increase self-respect. Education is our
passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it
today."
"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."
"Education has for its object the formation of character."
"No great advance has ever been made in science, politics, or religion without controversy."
"What ever is good to know is difficult to learn."