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I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing
than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance
E. E. Cummings1894–1962Collected Poems (1938), “New Poems: 22”
Share your knowledge. It’s a way to achieve immortality.
Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lamaborn 1935
- Knowledge
If there is to be any permanent improvement in man and any better social order, it must come mainly from the education and humanizing of man.
Clarence Darrow1857–1938Crime: Its Cause And Treatment (1922) Ch. 36 “Remedies”
Doing what little one can to increase the general stock of knowledge is as respectable an object of life, as one can in any likelihood pursue.
Charles Darwin1809–1882
- Knowledge
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.
Charles Darwin1809–1882The Descent of Man (1871) volume I, “Introduction”, p. 3
- Knowledge
Our age has robbed millions of the simplicity of ignorance, and has so far failed to lift them to the simplicity of wisdom.
Robertson Davies1913–1995A Voice from the Attic (1960)
- Knowledge
- Wisdom
Intellectual darkness is essential to industrial slavery.
Eugene V. Debs1855–1926The Socialist Party and the Working Class (1904)
- Knowledge
- Work
The only secure knowledge is that I exist.
René Descartes1596–1650
- Knowledge
- Philosophy
This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy, for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased.
Charles Dickens1812–1870A Christmas Carol (1843), Stave IIIIn context
- Charity
Ignorance never settles a question.
Benjamin Disraeli1804–1881Speech in the House of Commons (14 May 1866)
- Knowledge
Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.
Benjamin Disraeli1804–1881Speech in the House of Commons (15 June 1874)
It turns out that teaching is one of those things like raising a kid or working out⁠—sometimes amazing, often difficult and painful, but, in hindsight, amazing.
Cory Doctorowborn 1971The Man Who Sold The Moon (2014), p. 129
Man is a mystery: if you spend your entire life trying to puzzle it out, then do not say that you have wasted your time. I occupy myself with this mystery, because I want to be a man.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky1821–1881Letter to his brother Mikhail (1839), as translated in Konstantin Mochulsky, Dostoevsky: His Life and Work (1971), p. 17
- Knowledge
- Philosophy
Ten years now go further than a thousand then, not so much on account of our finer intellects as because the light we have shows us the way to more.
Arthur Conan Doyle1859–1930The Stark Munro Letters (1894)
- Knowledge
The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.
Arthur Conan Doyle1859–1930The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902), Chapter 3In context
- Knowledge
- Thinking