Ani DiFranco Quotes

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

He that has more Knowledge than Judgment, is made for another Man's use more than his own.

I know that knowledge and intelligence are not the same thing - but they do live in the same neighborhood. I know once again, firsthand, the joy of learning.

If one knows only what one is told, one does not know enough to be able to arrive at a well-balanced decision.

The difference between ignorant and educated people is that the latter know more facts. But that has nothing to do with whether they are stupid or intelligent.

I suggest that an education and reading and facts aren't bad things on which to ponder a few notions.

A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.

Reading makes you smarter. It really does.

The more one reads, the more one sees that one has to read.

The savage and women are not what we call intellectual because they are not taught to know and manipulate the materials of knowledge.

All through my life, when faced with a difficult decision, I always ask myself - where can I learn more. Make the choice to learn.

I need something, Wax. A place to look. You always did the thinking.” “Yes, having a brain helps with that, surprisingly.

Dollars and guns are no substitutes for brains and will power.

Problems may be solved in the study which have baffled all those who have sought a solution by the aid of their senses. To carry the art, however, to its highest pitch, it is necessary that the reasoner should be able to use all the facts which have come to his knowledge; and this in itself implies, as you will readily see, a possession of all knowledge, which, even in these days of free education and encyclopaedias, is a somewhat rare accomplishment.

Education is no substitute for intelligence.

It is impossible to live without brains, either one's own or borrowed.

There is a difference between people who are educated and people who are smart.

We need both information and thinking. Information is no substitute for thinking and thinking is no substitute for information.

Reading maketh a full man; and writing an axact man. And, therefore, if a man write little, he need have a present wit; and if he read little, he need have much cunning to seem to know which he doth not.

A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

They know enough who know how to learn.

Never write on a subject until you have read yourself full of it.

To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.

I think I learned a lot from reading in general - even from reading badly written books.