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You must acquire the best knowledge first, and without delay; it is the height of madness to learn what you will later have to unlearn.
Erasmus1466–1536Letter to Christian Northoff (1497), as translated in Collected Works of Erasmus (1974), p. 114
- Knowledge
Ignorance of one’s misfortunes is clear gain.
Euripides481–407 BCFrg. 205.3 (Bartlett’s, 1892); cf. Davenant
- Knowledge
Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.
Euripides481–407 BCFrg. 1028 (Bartlett’s, 1892)
- Youth
How can any man, whose eyes
Are wholesome, seek to rear his children wise
Beyond men’s wont? Much helplessness in arts
Of common life, and in their townsmen’s hearts
Envy deep-set … so much their learning brings!
Come unto fools with knowledge of new things,
They deem it vanity, not knowledge.
Euripides481–407 BCMedea (431 BC), Part 1, spoken by MedeaIn context
An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It’s being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don’t.
WFWilliam Feather1889–1981Often credited to Malcolm Forbes
A very great deal more truth can become known than can be proven.
Richard Feynman1918–1988“The Development of the Space-Time View of Quantum Electrodynamics,” Nobel Lecture (11 December 1965)
- Knowledge
- Truth & Lies
I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
Richard Feynman1918–1988What Do You Care What Other People Think? (1988), “The Making of a Scientist”, p. 14
- Knowledge
I don’t know anything, but I do know that everything is interesting if you go into it deeply enough.
Richard Feynman1918–1988From Omni interview, “The Smartest Man in the World” (1979) p. 203
- Knowledge
Scientific knowledge is an enabling power to do either good or bad — but it does not carry instructions on how to use it.
Richard Feynman1918–1988The Value of Science (1955)
- Knowledge
- Science
Education’s purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Malcolm Forbes1919–1990
I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.
Harry Emerson Fosdick1878–1969Riverside Sermons (1958), p. 22
- Knowledge
Is it surprising that prisons resemble factories, schools, barracks, hospitals, which all resemble prisons?
Michel Foucault1926–1984Discipline and Punish (1977) as translated by Alan Sheridan, p. 228
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
Anatole France1844–1924The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard (1881), Pt. II, ch. 4
To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
Anatole France1844–1924The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard (1881), Pt. II, ch. 2
- Knowledge
Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
Benjamin Franklin1706–1790Poor Richard’s Almanack
- Genius