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Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
CCCharles Caleb Colton1777–1832Lacon (1820), Volume 1, Vol. I; CCCXXII
Learning without thought is labor lost.
Confucius551–479 BCAnalects, Chapter II, To study and not think is a waste. To think and not study is dangerous.
- Thinking
The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don’t know anything about.
Wayne Dyer1940–2015
I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.
Robert Frost1874–1963
Learning carries within itself certain dangers because out of necessity one has to learn from one’s enemies.
Leon Trotsky1879–1940Literature and Revolution (1924)
Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.
Laurence J. Peter1919–1990
Experts often possess more data than judgment.
Colin Powell1937–2021
- Wisdom
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
Alexandre Dumas1802–1870
- Children
The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge.
Ambrose Bierce1842–1914
As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.
Leonardo da Vinci1452–1519
Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
George Bernard Shaw1856–1950
- Knowledge
The world is governed more by appearances than realities, so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.
Daniel Webster1782–1852
He listens well who takes notes.
Dante Alighieri1265–1321
The greater our knowledge increases, the greater our ignorance unfolds.
John F. Kennedy1917–1963To the Moon (1962)
- Knowledge
If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
CCCharles Caleb Colton1777–1832Lacon (1820), Volume 1, Vol. I; CCCXXXIV