Malcolm Forbes Quotes

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

Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It's about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

Learning how to learn is the most precious thing we have in life.

The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.

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

Education makes the wise slightly wiser, but it makes the fool vastly more dangerous.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

When I was younger, I was full of smart things to say about all my books.

Never stop learning; knowledge doubles every fourteen months.

With science and reason throughout history, what people believed turned out to be false. So I like to keep an open mind to all perspectives and learn and become more fully realised as a person. I just feel we're never going to know what the full picture is.

The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.

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

Looking back, I realize that nurturing curiosity and the instinct to seek solutions are perhaps the most important contributions education can make.

The learned man knows that he is ignorant.

No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.

It is only the ignorant who despise education.

The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge and the dissemination of truth.

Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can - there will always come a time when you will be grateful you did.

It's only through listening that you learn, and I never want to stop learning.

The rare person is still interested in new advances when they are adults. There is possibly a correlation with intelligence. In any case, you have to be fairly bright to keep learning and changing attitudes as you get older.

Always educate yourself.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

A college education shows a man how little other people know.