E. L. Konigsburg Quotes

Education is very important. I think I understand education.

The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate.

You learn from everything.

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

I have been a teacher myself all my life. I have an intense passion to share with people. Our only salvation is in knowledge, in learning.

The more I can hear, the more I can learn, the better off I'll be.

I'm all for education.

Everything is educational.

Let us continue to improve until we are filled with the knowledge of the truth. We have yet much to learn.

The more you read, the more things you will know.

Reason without learning is like the untilled soil, or like the human body that lacks nourishment.

Education is fundamental to any success. That's your baseboard.

What I learned in school, what I learned in the educational part of my life. Trying to acquire a kind of a bird's eye view. You drive hard and see everything. And that's called education because now you can see everything.

There is no future without education.

A lot of learning canbe a little thing.

What we have learned from other becomes our own reflection.

I know that knowledge and intelligence are not the same thing - but they do live in the same neighborhood. I know once again, firsthand, the joy of learning.

The highest priority you can have is education.

Schools teach ignorance.

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.

Education is our passport to the future.

There is a difference between people who are educated and people who are smart.

There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom.

We are in a great school, and we should be diligent to learn, and continue to store up the knowledge of heaven and of earth, and read good books, although I cannot say that I would recommend the reading of all books, for it is not all books which are good. Read good books, and extract from them wisdom and understanding as much as you possibly can, aided by the Spirit of God. (JD 12:124)

You will learn most things by looking, but reading gives understanding. Reading will make you free.