Plato Quotes

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

Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?

I want everybody to be smart. As smart as they can be. A world of ignorant people is too dangerous to live in.

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

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

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

Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.

Every day, I get a little smarter.

I think I'm pretty smart. I think I'm pretty clever. But there's a lot that you hone in on when you finish your education.

You don't get smarter by not learning stuff.

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.

Learning makes the wise wiser and the fool more foolish.

Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge.

The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.

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.

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

Only in Britain could it be thought a defect to be too clever by half. The probability is that too many people are too stupid by three-quarters.

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.

The brighter you are, the more you have to learn.

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.

Why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as well as prohibition did, in five years Americans would be the smartest race of people on Earth.

A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.