Much learning does not teach understanding.
Themes
Knowledge
Learning, ignorance, and the limits of certainty.
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
I know that I know nothing.
Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.
The more you know, the more you know you don't know.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Experience is the best teacher, but a fool will learn from no other.
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.
It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.
The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
The more I read, the more I acquire, the more certain I am that I know nothing.
Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
What do I know?
Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.
Knowledge is power.
Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
Academies that are founded at the public expense are instituted not so much to cultivate men's natural abilities as to restrain them.
Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own understanding.
Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.
The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.
We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.
A problem properly stated is a problem partly solved.