Dick Gregory Quotes

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

Education, information and knowledge are all one.

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

My own view about knowledge is we're always better to have knowledge.

True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.

Knowledge is the consequence of time, and multitude of days are fittest to teach wisdom.

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

I like to read and understand.

Some people still think knowledge is power.

What transforms this world is - knowledge. Do you see what I mean? Nothing else can change anything in this world. Knowledge alone is capable of transforming the world, while at the same time leaving it exactly as it is. When you look at the world with knowledge, you realize that things are unchangeable and at the same time are constantly being transformed.

There is no substitute for knowledge.

The more one learns, the more he understands his ignorance.

Granny sighed. "You have learned something," she said, and thought it safe to insert a touch of sternness into her voice. "They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it is not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

The more one knows, the luckier he is, for knowledge is the greatest gift in life.

Care about understanding and before you know it, in just a few decades, you'll have a system of thinking that gives you answers whenever you ask.

Being informed is different from being formed, and the first is a common substitute for the second.

To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.

Knowledge is a thing that one cannot have enough of. It is the fruit of wisdom, to be eaten carefully and digested fully, unlike that lunch you are bolting down, little friend.

Men that love wisdom must be acquainted with very many things indeed.

There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom.

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

They know enough who know how to learn.

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

Anything that gives us new knowledge gives us an opportunity to be more rational.

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