Howard Gardner Quotes

Be convinced that, if man were able to reach the end without preparatory studies, such studies would not be preparatory but tiresome and utterly superfluous.

Any piece of knowledge I acquire today has a value at this moment exactly proportional to my skill to deal with it. Tomorrow, when I know more, I recall that piece of knowledge and use it better.

To understand is difficult; to act is easy.

When I get the point, I often don't know what to do with it.

No one can draw more out of things, books included, than he already knows. A man has no ears for that to which experience has given him no access.

If I can't picture it, I can't understand it.

If you can't summarize an issue on one page, you don't understand the issue well enough.

Intellect takes you to the door, but it doesn't take you into the house.

One can do something if one can see and understand it.

What I cannot create, I do not understand.

Some people spend their entire lives reading but never get beyond reading the words on the page, they don't understand that the words are merely stepping stones placed across a fast-flowing river, and the reason they're there is so that we can reach the farther shore, it's the other side that matters...

It is not difficult to know a thing; what is difficult is to know how to use what you know

Where everyone else sees a straight line, you see a maze, and when I'm done talking to you, the maze starts to make more sense --Reply by Dove to Aly's silent inquiry

I think some of these solutions are prepared in an office without a full understanding of the local situation.

Arithmetic is a kind of knowledge in which the best natures should be trained, and which must not be given up.

The only difference between a problem and a solution is that people understand the solution.

This has been done elegantly by Minkowski; but chalk is cheaper than grey matter, and we will do it as it comes.

All men can understand what representation is; and that it must necessarily include a variety of knowledge and talents.

A lot of the times you read something and you don't realize that you are going to have to do the things that you read.

By reading so much, my vocabulary automatically improved along with my comprehension.

One can have knowledge without having wisdom, but one cannot have wisdom without having knowledge.

The real challenge is not to get people to remember more, but to get them to understand better. We're just now beginning to be able to show what we can implement with technological tools. I think our interest at Apple is to be the provider of the instruments that will help educators and students create and entirely new kind of learning than what we have now.

Knowledge is not a loose leaf notebook of facts.

Men are paid, not merely for what they know, but more particularly for WHAT THEY DO WITH THAT WHICH THEY KNOW.

What I can't create I don't understand