Isocrates Quotes

Now, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else. And root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts: nothing else will ever be of any service to them. This is the principle on which I bring up my own children, and this is the principle on which I bring up these children. Stick to Facts, sir!

To me the offer of certainty, the offer of complete security, the offer of an impermeable faith that can’t give way, is an offer of something not worth having. I want to live my life taking the risk all the time that I don’t know anything like enough yet. That I haven’t understood enough. That I can’t know enough. That I’m always hungrily operating on the margins of a potentially great harvest of future knowledge and wisdom… Those who tell you that you can only live by accepting an absolute authority: don’t think of that as a gift. Think of it as a poison chalice. Push it aside, however tempting it is. Take the risk of thinking for yourself. Much more happiness, truth, beauty, and wisdom will come to you that way.

Teachers are important in this world.

There is not anything that can so suddenly flood the mind with shame as the conviction of ignorance, yet we are all ignorant of nearly everything there is to be known.

A man learns all his life and dies the day he thinks that he has learnt everything.

Listen to my advice; I have some experience. In a way, it is me being a teacher, which is what I wanted to be. I still feel I could go into teaching. What is teaching but passing on your knowledge to those who are at the beginning? Some people are born with that gift.

I always think there's something you can learn.

Being schooled is the same thing as learning, and you can never be too old to have your coattail pulled when you're wrong about something.

Teaching is a respectful job. Teachers lay the foundation for society.

Coach Godsey is a brilliant mind, a great teacher, and it's been fun learning from him so far.

If you seek learning, it meets you somewhere down the road.

Once we receive education, we should be grateful for it, respect it, and remember what we learnt.

I got an old school coach who's more of a teacher than a coach.

I strive to get better and better in understanding how the world works.

I always considered the role of teaching to be very noble and relevant.

The most important thing for my father was learning. Because nobody can take that away from you.

I hope I could spend the rest of my life learning and communicating.

I think you never leave what you learn.

I wanted a way to pass on all the gifts, all the instruction that I've been given.

No amount of learning goes to waste. It adds to building your skill set and intellect.

You can always learn more.

Books are absent teachers.

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

My father taught me that learning is an endless process, and that there is no limit to the amount of knowledge a person can contain. You are never too old to learn something new, or too young to learn too much.

We read for instruction, for correction, and for consolation.