Richard Bach Quotes

To learn without thinking is labour in vain, to think without learning is desolation.

Thinking is not enough. There is no final enough of wisdom, experience - any... thing.

He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

If one learns from others, but does not think, one will be bewildered. If, on the other hand, one thinks but does not learn from others, one will be in peril.

Education means to bring out wisdom. Indoctrination means to push in knowledge.

Content if hence th' unlearn'd their wants may view, The learn'd reflect on what before they knew.

Good questions outrank easy answers.

The more I read, the more I realise what I don't know.

Before I came here I was confused about this subject. Having listened to your lecture I am still confused. But on a higher level.

I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.

Large skepticism leads to large understanding. Small skepticism leads to small understanding. No skepticism leads to no understanding.

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

Learning is finding out what you already know.

We get wise by asking questions, and even if these are not answered, we get wise, for a well-packed question carries its answer on its back as a snail carries its shell.

The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know.

A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems... It gives a relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the unsolved ones.

Writing isn't necessarily about what one knows but what one wants to know.

It is only through reading that one can understand how people are smarter than you and what they have left behind for you.

Education, information and knowledge are all one.

You always need to be curious and study.

I like to read and understand.

To learn means by practice, by inquiring, by analyzing to find out what is, not what was.

If you don't ask the right questions, I can't give you the answers, and if you don't know the right question to ask, you're not ready for the answers

We've taught you that the earth is round, That red and white make pink, And something else that matters more - We've taught you how to think.

Some people still think knowledge is power.