John Lancaster Spalding Quotes

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

That process of exposure to diverse opinions isn't 'brainwashing' - it's education.

If you make one gift this year, make it the gift of knowledge.

Learning gives creativity Creativity leads to thinking Thinking provides knowledge Knowledge makes you great.

My goal is to make the viewer a little bit smarter.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.

The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.

Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.

Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.

Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom.

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.

I'm hungry for knowledge. The whole thing is to learn every day, to get brighter and brighter. That's what this world is about. You look at someone like Gandhi, and he glowed. Martin Luther King glowed. Muhammad Ali glows. I think that's from being bright all the time, and trying to be brighter.

To live for a time close to great minds is the best kind of education.

The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.

Knowledge is more important than life. We've only one excuse for existing, to think, to find out, to learn.

Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?

Whoever does not love knowledge, then there is no good in him.

Learning is an unwelcome guest to the Devil, and therefore he would fain starve it out …. If ever there be any Considerable Blow given to the Devil's Kingdom, it must be, by Youth Excellently Educated.

If we learn from those only, of whose lives and opinions we altogether approve, we shall have to turn from many of the highest and profoundest minds.

What could be wiser and to give people who can think the leisure in which to do it.

I love to learn, and at some level, there's something to learn from my books. And I love art and philosophy, so there's something philosophical about my fiction.

Education, information and knowledge are all one.

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.