Joseph Joubert Quotes

One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.

From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings.

The goal of education is not to increase the amount of knowledge but to create the possibilities for a child to invent and discover, to create men who are capable of doing new things.

Make curiosity a wonder-ful habit.

Imagination is built upon knowledge.

When books are opened, we discover that we have wings

Knowing a lot...is a springboard to creativity.

I think the best part of being an author is that I get to learn about anything I want and explain it away as research.

Cram your head with characters and stories. Abuse your library privileges. Never stop looking at the world, and never stop reading to find out what sense other people have made of it. If people give you a hard time and tell you to get your nose out of a book, tell them you're working. Tell them it's research. Tell them to pipe down and leave you alone.

Write from what you know into what you don't know.

In my whole life, I have known no wise people who didn't read all the time - none ... ZERO.

That's what books are for... to travel without moving an inch.

Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.

My books hold between their covers every story I've ever known and still remember, or have now forgotten, or may one day read; they fill the space around me with ancient and new voices.

The imagination is a species of knowledge, knowledge that can take the form of discovery.

The desire for knowledge shapes a man.

There are in this world two kinds of natures, - those that have wings, and those that have feet, - the winged and the walking spirits. The walking are the logicians; the winged are the instinctive and poetic.

Its about continuing to learn and being open-minded, don't ever think you know it all.

One of the benefits of a bad education is the constant pleasure of discovery.

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

Great is the faith of the flush of knowledge and of the investigation of the depths of qualities and things.

I mean, how would anyone learn anything if they weren't curious? How would scientists make discoveries? -- We all have the right to be different, don't we?

Thomas Edison reads not for entertainment but to increase his store of knowledge. He sucks in information as eagerly as the bee sucks honey from flowers. The whole world, so to speak, pours its wisdom into his mind. He regards it as a criminal waste of time to go through the slow and painful ordeal of ascertaining things for one's self if these same things have already been ascertained and made available by others. In Edison's mind knowledge is power.

A common quality I see of people who are successful is that they are voracious readers.